{
   "preamble" : {
      "cargo" : "releases",
      "title" : "Debian Policy Releases"
   },
   "releases" : [
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  [ Sean Whitton ]",
            "  * Policy: Update alternatives system priorities for window managers",
            "    Wording: Ansgar <ansgar@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Closes: #975631",
            "  * Policy: Clarify udeb-only source packages are out of scope",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Closes: #992136",
            "",
            "  [ Russ Allbery ]",
            "  * Policy: Add new-version argument to several maintainer script calls",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #823256",
            "  * Policy: Essential packages must work only if previously configured",
            "    Wording: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>",
            "    Seconded: Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>",
            "    Closes: #1020267",
            "  * Prefer \"portion\" to \"stanza\" when describing parts of the Vcs-Git",
            "    header to avoid confusion with blocks of fields in deb822.  Thanks to",
            "    Charles Plessy for pointing out the inconsistency.",
            "",
            "  [ Guillem Jover ]",
            "  * Terminology fixes.  (Closes: #1020248)",
            "    - Refer to blocks of fields in deb822 files as stanzas, not",
            "      paragraphs.  This aligns terminology with dpkg and reduces confusion",
            "      with text paragraphs found in, for example, the Description field.",
            "  * Policy: Replace references to PGP with OpenPGP.  (Closes: #1020243)",
            "  * Whitespace and quoting fixes.  (Closes: #1020238)",
            "    - Remove trailing whitespace and convert tabs to spaces in all files.",
            "    - Avoid use of unbalanced single quotes.",
            "  * copyright-format: Formatting improvements.  (Closes: #1020241)",
            "    - Put Source after Format in examples.",
            "    - Reformat GPL examples to be more compact.",
            "    - Use URLs rather than postal addresses in GPL examples.",
            "    - Move the comment about where the GPL can be found on Debian systems",
            "      to a separate Comment block in examples, rather than including it in",
            "      the License text.",
            "    - Apply wrap-and-sort -ast formatting to Files fields in the examples.",
            "",
            "  [ Daniel Shahaf ]",
            "  * Add an English description of the format of bug closers in the",
            "    changelog file, alongside the Perl-compatible regular expression.",
            "    (Closes: #953911)"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            823256,
            953911,
            975631,
            992136,
            1020238,
            1020241,
            1020243,
            1020248,
            1020267
         ],
         "epoch" : 1671244904,
         "timestamp" : "2022-12-17T02:41:44Z",
         "version" : "4.6.2.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * d/control: Add Homepage field (Closes: #1012879).",
            "    Thanks to Benjamin Drung for the suggestion.",
            "  * Upgrading checklist for 4.5.1: apply wording change from 07f1b39",
            "    (Closes: #1017095)."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            1012879,
            1017095
         ],
         "epoch" : 1660436014,
         "timestamp" : "2022-08-14T00:13:34Z",
         "version" : "4.6.1.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * Policy: Allow non-64-bit packages to install to /usr/lib64",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #992601",
            "  * Policy: Define 'upstream' & document several version conventions",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Closes: #542288, #850729",
            "  * virtual-package-names-list: Add {default,}dbus-system-bus (Closes: #998063).",
            "    Thanks to Simon McVittie for the patch.",
            "  * Update 9.7.2 and 9.7.3 for package split of bin:mime-support into",
            "    bin:media-types and bin:mailcap (Closes: #1008480).",
            "    Thanks to Charles Plessy for the patch.",
            "",
            "  * Fix several problems with footnote regarding the autobuilders and",
            "    build dependency alternatives (Closes: #999826).",
            "    Thanks to Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues for the report and patch.",
            "  * Use syntax highlighting for some source code blocks (Closes: #999566).",
            "    Thanks to Stéphane Blondon for the patch."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            542288,
            850729,
            992601,
            998063,
            999566,
            999826,
            1008480
         ],
         "epoch" : 1652292179,
         "timestamp" : "2022-05-11T18:02:59Z",
         "version" : "4.6.1.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.6.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * Fix header of upgrading checklist entry for last release (Closes: #992414).",
            "    Thanks to Scott Talbert and Drew Parsons for reporting the problem."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            992414.0
         ],
         "epoch" : 1629318110,
         "timestamp" : "2021-08-18T20:21:50Z",
         "version" : "4.6.0.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.6.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  [ Sean Whitton ]",
            "  * Policy: Allow manpages to be included in the dependencies of packages",
            "    Wording: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Closes: #983657",
            "  * Policy: Support for subpaths in Vcs-Git",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #932696",
            "  * 4.4: Fix changelog format: needs an extra space before sign-off",
            "    (Closes: #976301).",
            "    Thanks to Anatoli Babenia for reporting the problem.",
            "  * autopkgtest: Update variable name ADTTMP->AUTOPKGTEST_TMP (Closes: #989581).",
            "    Thanks to Fabrice Bauzac-Stehly for reporting the problem.",
            "",
            "  [ Russ Allbery ]",
            "  * Policy: Add new encouraged keyword, make keywords consistent",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Closes: #944920",
            "  * Clarify that no package may install files in /usr/lib64.  The previous",
            "    wording implied this restriction only applied to 64-bit packages.",
            "  * Reserve the /etc/rcn.d directories for the init-system-helpers package",
            "    rather than the sysvinit package, reflecting a change already made in",
            "    the archive."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            932696,
            944920,
            976301,
            983657,
            989581
         ],
         "epoch" : 1629256002,
         "timestamp" : "2021-08-18T03:06:42Z",
         "version" : "4.6.0.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * Policy: Relax requirements on copying copyright notices into d/copyright",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>",
            "    Seconded: Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #955005",
            "  * Policy: Forbid vendor-specific series files",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Graham Inggs <ginggs@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #959909",
            "  * Policy: Clarification about colons in version numbers",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
            "    Closes: #971023",
            "  * Replace `/usr/share/package/copyright` -> `/usr/share/PACKAGE/copyright`.",
            "    Thanks to Guillem Jover for the suggestion.",
            "  * Fix manpage section in reference to systemd.unit(5) (Closes: #973491).",
            "    Thanks to Martin Schwarz for the report.",
            "  * Makefile: Always use UTC date (Closes: #974911).",
            "    Thanks to Vagrant Cascadian for the patch."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            955005,
            959909,
            971023,
            973491,
            974911
         ],
         "epoch" : 1605571543,
         "timestamp" : "2020-11-17T00:05:43Z",
         "version" : "4.5.1.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.5.0.3) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * Add a sample grep command for finding copyright notices in upstream",
            "    source code to an existing footnote in section 2.3.",
            "  * 3.2.1: tweak wording to avoid suggesting that Policy forbids using",
            "    Debian revisions for packages using a native source package format",
            "    (Closes: #953629).",
            "    Thank you to Ian Jackson for the suggestion.",
            "  * Switch back dh_linktree -> dh_sphinxdoc now that #658238 has been",
            "    resolved (Closes: #968664)",
            "    - Update substvars usage",
            "    - Drop linktree config",
            "    - Drop ${misc:Depends} -> ${linktree:Recommends} hack from d/rules.",
            "      We now just have ${sphinxdoc:Depends} in the Recommends: field."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            953629,
            968664
         ],
         "epoch" : 1597861491,
         "timestamp" : "2020-08-19T18:24:51Z",
         "version" : "4.5.0.3"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.5.0.2) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * Rebuild against newer libjs-sphinxdoc (Closes: #959005).",
            "    Thanks Gabriele Stilli for the report."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            959005.0
         ],
         "epoch" : 1588108818,
         "timestamp" : "2020-04-28T21:20:18Z",
         "version" : "4.5.0.2"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.5.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * Rename section \"Convenience copies of code\" -> \"Embedded code copies\"",
            "    (Closes: #955036).",
            "  * Use xelatex in Sphinx conf to deal with Unicode chars in input",
            "    (Closes: #955083).",
            "    - Add build-deps on texlive-xetex, fonts-freefont-otf, xindy."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            955036,
            955083
         ],
         "epoch" : 1585337678,
         "timestamp" : "2020-03-27T19:34:38Z",
         "version" : "4.5.0.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  [ Russ Allbery ]",
            "  * Clarify the footnote explaining why packages should not depend on X",
            "    fonts.  Thanks, Stephen Kitt.",
            "  * Fix error in Perl example for the gain root command.  Thanks, Niels",
            "    Thykier.  (Closes: #949007)",
            "",
            "  [ Sean Whitton ]",
            "  * Policy: Packages including daemons should ship systemd units",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Ansgar <ansgar@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #941198",
            "  * Policy: New package usernames should begin with an underscore",
            "    Wording: Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #949390",
            "  * Policy: Revise init script policy in light of GR result",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Closes: #948115",
            "    - This change involved changing a number of Sphinx anchor names.  This",
            "      may break some external links into Policy.",
            "  * Fix 'day-of week'.",
            "    Thanks to Jakub Wilk."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            941198,
            948115,
            949007,
            949390
         ],
         "epoch" : 1579549029,
         "timestamp" : "2020-01-20T19:37:09Z",
         "version" : "4.5.0.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.4.1.2) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  [ Sean Whitton ]",
            "  * Policy: Drop implementation details of sysvinit runlevels",
            "    Wording: Ansgar <ansgar@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Closes: #941194",
            "    See also #943583.",
            "  * Fix \"set          -e\" extraneous whitespace (Closes: #943880).",
            "    Thanks Sven Joachim for the patch.",
            "  * Fix 'multple' typo (Closes: #944407).",
            "    Thanks Ansgar for the patch.",
            "  * Improve some phrasing in 7.8 (Closes: #944325).",
            "    Thank you to Nicholas D Steeves for pointing out the problem and Russ",
            "    Allbery for the new text.",
            "",
            "  [ Russ Allbery ]",
            "  * 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)",
            "  * Add missing close brackets to the examples in the Diversions",
            "    appendix.  Thanks, Abou Al Montacir.",
            "  * Add explicit :manpage: markup to links to manual pages.",
            "  * Fix anchor syntax for s-signalingreboot section.",
            "  * Fix broken markup in a footnote about sponsored uploads.  Thanks,",
            "    Guillem Jover.  (Closes: #944332)"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            941194,
            941835,
            943880,
            944325,
            944332,
            944407
         ],
         "epoch" : 1575076152,
         "timestamp" : "2019-11-30T01:09:12Z",
         "version" : "4.4.1.2"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.4.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * Add /run/reboot-required change to the upgrading checklist",
            "    (Closes: #941475)."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            941475.0
         ],
         "epoch" : 1570112996,
         "timestamp" : "2019-10-03T14:29:56Z",
         "version" : "4.4.1.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.4.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * Policy: Only one Vcs-<type> field is permitted",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #931975",
            "  * Policy: Document /run/reboot-required mechanism",
            "    Wording: Karl O. Pinc <kop@meme.com>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #919507",
            "  * Policy: doc-base now optional, not recommended",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #910783",
            "  * Copyright format: state syntactical restrictions on Files: field",
            "    Wording: Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #688481"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            688481,
            910783,
            919507,
            931975
         ],
         "epoch" : 1569780709,
         "timestamp" : "2019-09-29T18:11:49Z",
         "version" : "4.4.1.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.4.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * Rebuild against newer libjs-sphinxdoc (Closes: #932359).",
            "    Thanks Gabriele Stilli for the report.",
            "  * Clarify using more than one VCS-* field.",
            "    Thanks to Guillem Jover for reporting the problem and Russ Allbery for",
            "    the patch."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            932359.0
         ],
         "epoch" : 1563480069,
         "timestamp" : "2019-07-18T20:01:09Z",
         "version" : "4.4.0.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  [ Sean Whitton ]",
            "  * Policy: Recommend use of dh",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #930666",
            "  * Policy: Permit -b in Vcs-Hg as well as Vcs-Git",
            "    Wording: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Closes: #897217, #920355",
            "  * Policy: Document versioned Provides:",
            "    Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #761219",
            "  * virtual-package-names-list: Add logind, default-logind",
            "    Wording: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>",
            "    Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
            "    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
            "    Closes: #917431",
            "  * Add text to header of the virtual packages list describing the",
            "    \"(versioned)\" annotation.",
            "  * Fix reference to FHS section in Policy 9.1.2.",
            "    Thanks to Juuso \"Linda\" Lapinlampi for the patch.",
            "    (Closes: #922654)",
            "  * Process: Rewrite description of 'obsolete' usertag.",
            "  * Process: Add 'stalled' usertag.",
            "  * Add footnote to 2.3 with a list of licenses thought not to require the",
            "    copying of all copyright notices into the package's copyright file",
            "    (Closes: #928199).",
            "    This was based on discussion between myself and FTP team members.",
            "",
            "  [ Russ Allbery ]",
            "  * Fix formatting of the debian_revision explanation in Policy 5.6.12.",
            "    Thanks to Emmanuel Arias for the patch."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            761219,
            897217,
            917431,
            920355,
            922654,
            928199,
            930666
         ],
         "epoch" : 1562510441,
         "timestamp" : "2019-07-07T14:40:41Z",
         "version" : "4.4.0.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.3.0.3) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * Add link to jenkins.debian.net build of Policy (Closes: #921963).",
            "    Thanks, Holger Levsen.",
            "  * Rebuild against newer libjs-sphinxdoc (Closes: #921889).",
            "    Thanks Gabriele Stilli for the report."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            921889,
            921963
         ],
         "epoch" : 1551311991,
         "timestamp" : "2019-02-27T23:59:51Z",
         "version" : "4.3.0.3"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.3.0.2) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * Rebuild against newer libjs-sphinxdoc (Closes: #921889).",
            "    Thanks Gabriele Stilli for the report."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            921889.0
         ],
         "epoch" : 1549757148,
         "timestamp" : "2019-02-10T00:05:48Z",
         "version" : "4.3.0.2"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * Correct heading in upgrading checklist \"Version 4.2.2\"->\"Version 4.3.0\"."
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 1545563464,
         "timestamp" : "2018-12-23T11:11:04Z",
         "version" : "4.3.0.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * Policy: Update recommendations for stripping binaries and shlibs",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
            "    Closes: #188731",
            "  * Policy: Slightly relax when copyright information need be included verbatim",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #912581",
            "  * Policy: Required targets must not write outside of the source package tree",
            "    Wording: Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>",
            "    Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
            "    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
            "    Closes: #845715",
            "  * Policy: Packages should not contain a non-default series file",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #850156",
            "  * virtual-package-names-list: Add dbus-session-bus, default-dbus-session-bus",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #833401",
            "  * In a preexisting footnote, recommend passing -D to strip(1) when",
            "    stripping static libraries.",
            "    Thanks to Niels Thykier for the suggestion.",
            "  * Add references to 'next' branch in README.md.",
            "  * Convert virtual-package-names-list to YAML (Closes: #914383).",
            "    Thanks to Jonathan Dowland for the patch.",
            "  * Append missing '.git' to Vcs-Git."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            188731,
            833401,
            845715,
            850156,
            912581,
            914383
         ],
         "epoch" : 1545560275,
         "timestamp" : "2018-12-23T10:17:55Z",
         "version" : "4.3.0.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.2.1.5) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * Add references to 'next' branch in README.md.",
            "  * Replace a 'can' with a 'may' for readability in 7.7 (Closes: #824495).",
            "    Thanks to Santiago Vila for reporting the problem.",
            "  * Update location of sample init.d script (Closes: #913295).",
            "    Thanks to Dmitry Bogatov for the patch.",
            "  * Document in 1.1 that not all bugs are Policy violations (Closes: #913659).",
            "    Thanks to Ian Jackson for the patch."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            824495,
            913295,
            913659
         ],
         "epoch" : 1542472599,
         "timestamp" : "2018-11-17T16:36:39Z",
         "version" : "4.2.1.5"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.2.1.4) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * Increase ToC depth 3->4 (Closes: #912059)."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            912059.0
         ],
         "epoch" : 1540665059,
         "timestamp" : "2018-10-27T18:30:59Z",
         "version" : "4.2.1.4"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.2.1.3) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * Update URI to d-i internals manual (Closes: #906910).",
            "    Thanks to Holger Wansing for the patch.",
            "  * Crosslink and deduplicate 4.9 and 10.1.",
            "    These sections both include discussion of the verbosity of build logs",
            "    and compiler warnings.",
            "  * Add policy/definition.txt to .gitignore."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            906910.0
         ],
         "epoch" : 1540064179,
         "timestamp" : "2018-10-20T19:36:19Z",
         "version" : "4.2.1.3"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * README.md: drop mention of 'dbnpolicy' UNIX group, which has now been",
            "    deleted.",
            "  * Upgrading checklist: drop the word 'maximally', to match the change to",
            "    section 4.9 made in release 4.2.1.0.",
            "  * README.md: add steps to add a new language.",
            "  * Use Sphinx replacements to insert the version and date into index.rst,",
            "    rather than substituting it in during the build (Closes: #909079).",
            "    This means that .po files are invalidated slightly less frequently.",
            "    Thanks to Hideki Yamane for the patch.",
            "  * Rebuild to update Recommends: field (Closes: #910561)."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            909079,
            910561
         ],
         "epoch" : 1539120350,
         "timestamp" : "2018-10-09T21:25:50Z",
         "version" : "4.2.1.2"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  [ Sean Whitton ]",
            "  * Drop stray colon in 4.9.",
            "    Thanks to Thorsten Glaser for pointing this out.",
            "  * New \"Seeking seconds for a patch\" section in README.md.",
            "    Ralf Treinen suggested recommending that those who propose patches",
            "    include word diffs and/or side-by-side diffs.",
            "  * README.md: remove a lot of outdated information, some wordsmithing,",
            "    and rearrangement to highlight opportunities for contribution.",
            "",
            "  [ Russ Allbery ]",
            "  * Add a footnote warning that different SONAMEs of the same shared",
            "    library cannot always be made safely co-installable, but these",
            "    exceptions are complex and beyond what Policy can explain.",
            "    (Closes: #901437)"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            901437.0
         ],
         "epoch" : 1535920029,
         "timestamp" : "2018-09-02T20:27:09Z",
         "version" : "4.2.1.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * Policy & Perl Policy: /usr/bin/perl shebang 'must' -> 'should'",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
            "    Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Closes: #906901",
            "  * Fix inconsistent wording in 4.9 by dropping the word 'maximally'",
            "    (Closes: #905251).",
            "    Thanks to several people who pointed out this issue, both in the BTS",
            "    and in person.",
            "",
            "  * Demote libjs-sphinxdoc hard dependencies to recommendations by using",
            "    an override_dh_linktree stanza (Closes: #906139).",
            "    Thanks to Vagrant Cascadian and Sven Joachim for the report and Ian",
            "    Jackson for suggesting the fix.",
            "  * README.md improvements:",
            "    - Add references to salsa:dbnpolicy/policy-l10n-merge-requests-here",
            "      repo.",
            "    - Improve the description of the release process (Closes: #905909)",
            "      Thanks Osamu Aoki for the patch.",
            "    - Add a link to the new 'by-complexity' BTS view.",
            "    - Some other small fixes (Closes: #905696).",
            "      Thanks Helge Kreutzmann for pointing them out.",
            "  * Update and alphabetise lists of the Policy delegates in various places."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            905251,
            905696,
            905909,
            906139,
            906901
         ],
         "epoch" : 1535227554,
         "timestamp" : "2018-08-25T20:05:54Z",
         "version" : "4.2.1.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.2.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  [ Hideki Yamane ]",
            "  * Partial translation of Policy Manual chs. 1--3 into Japanese.",
            "    - Add debian-policy-ja binary package.",
            "  * Infrastructure for translations.",
            "    - New build dependency on sphinx-intl.",
            "",
            "  [ Sean Whitton ]",
            "  * Switch dh_sphinxdoc->dh_linktree.",
            "    dh_sphinxdoc gets confused by the use of sphinx-intl.",
            "    - New build dependency on dh-linktree.",
            "  * Bump copyright years in d/copyright.",
            "  * Refer to rST source, not SGML source, in d/copyright.",
            "  * Add section 1.6, \"Translations\".",
            "  * Add \"Translation\" subsection to README.md.",
            "",
            "  [ Sean Whitton & Ian Jackson ]",
            "  * Simplify and rework Hideki's Makefile & dh_{auto_,}install changes."
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 1533295914,
         "timestamp" : "2018-08-03T11:31:54Z",
         "version" : "4.2.0.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * Policy: Standards-Version field is mandatory",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
            "    Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #886258",
            "  * Policy: Builds should be verbose & 'terse' DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS flag",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>",
            "    Closes: #628515",
            "  * Policy: Required targets may attempt some network access",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
            "    Closes: #813471",
            "  * Policy: Installation of upstream release notes and changelogs",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #459427",
            "",
            "  * Add a third paragraph to 1.3.3 encouraging the submission of patches",
            "    to document new techniques sooner rather than later, while making it",
            "    clear that updating the Policy Manual should never block making other",
            "    improvements to Debian.",
            "  * Tweak wording in a sentence in 1.1.",
            "  * Add a note to the README about why salsa merge requests are turned off.",
            "",
            "  * Stop installing policy-1.html because Sphinx's singlehtml output is",
            "    too buggy at present (Closes: #873456, #876075, #879048).",
            "    See also #877367.  Thanks to Paul Wise for switching the web mirrors",
            "    away from policy-1.html.",
            "",
            "  * license-count: improve regex for some Creative Commons licenses.",
            "    Thanks Jonathan Dowland for the patch.",
            "  * Fix some indentation in ch-archive.rst.",
            "    Thanks Hideki Yamane for the patch."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            459427,
            628515,
            813471,
            873456,
            876075,
            879048,
            886258
         ],
         "epoch" : 1533174213,
         "timestamp" : "2018-08-02T01:43:33Z",
         "version" : "4.2.0.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.1.5.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * Policy: Update section 4.1, \"Standards conformance\"",
            "    Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
            "    Closes: #901160",
            "  * Policy: Require d-devel consultation for each epoch bump",
            "    Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #891216",
            "  * Policy: Document Rules-Requires-Root",
            "    Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
            "    Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #880920",
            "  * Policy: Update version of POSIX standard for shell scripts",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #864615",
            "  * Policy: Update version of FHS from 2.3 to 3.0",
            "    Wording: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #787816",
            "  * Add reference link to section 4.1 to section 5.6.11."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            787816,
            864615,
            880920,
            891216,
            901160
         ],
         "epoch" : 1530701350,
         "timestamp" : "2018-07-04T10:49:10Z",
         "version" : "4.1.5.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.1.4.2) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * Fix URL to the alioth lists service in footnote (Closes: #896749).",
            "    Thanks Martin Zobel-Helas for the report.",
            "  * Tidy up \"Authors and Maintainers\":",
            "    - Add subsections to separate the record of the document's history",
            "      from the description of how it is presently maintained",
            "    - Correct claims about the role of the manual's maintainers: the",
            "      Policy Editors actually do have editorial power, thanks to our",
            "      DPL delegation, but we further delegate this power to the",
            "      Policy Changes Process."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            896749.0
         ],
         "epoch" : 1528619533,
         "timestamp" : "2018-06-10T08:32:13Z",
         "version" : "4.1.4.2"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.1.4.1) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * Fix some errors in upgrading checklist.",
            "    Thanks to several people for noticing these.",
            "    Thanks to Jeremy Bicha for a patch.",
            "  * Soften wording in upgrading checklist for removal of get-orig-source",
            "    target.",
            "    Thanks Helmut Grohne for the new wording.",
            "  * Fix sample postinst in 9.1.2 to comply with new required permissions",
            "    for /usr/local (Closes: #895136).",
            "    Thanks to Niels Thykier for noticing the problem, and for the new",
            "    sample script.",
            "    - Reorder 9.1.2 so that details of the permissions requirement appear",
            "      before the sample postinst.",
            "      This ensures that the complexity of the sample postinst makes sense",
            "      to the reader."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            895136.0
         ],
         "epoch" : 1523117581,
         "timestamp" : "2018-04-07T16:13:01Z",
         "version" : "4.1.4.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.1.4.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  [ Sean Whitton ]",
            "  * Policy: Drop get-orig-source rules target",
            "    Wording: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>",
            "    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
            "    Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
            "    Closes: #515856",
            "  * Policy: Update required permissions for /usr/local",
            "    Wording: Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>",
            "    Seconded: Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #299007",
            "  * Policy: Document debian/missing-sources",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
            "    Seconded: Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #742364",
            "  * Policy: Uniqueness of version numbers",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
            "    Closes: #881431",
            "  * Update recommendations dh_systemd_* -> dh_installsystemd (Closes: #889167).",
            "    Thanks Chris Lamb for the report.",
            "  * Fix some typos (Closes: #886890).",
            "    Thanks Sebastian Rasmussen for the patch.",
            "  * Fix some errors in shell script snippets caused by the rST conversion",
            "    script (Closes: #888437).",
            "    Thanks Yao Wei for the patch.",
            "  * Fix version of init-system-helpers required for `defaults-disabled`",
            "    option from 1.5.0 to 1.50.",
            "    Thanks to GengYu Rao for noting this on the debian-policy list.",
            "  * Fix indentation of description of the clean target (Closes: #889960).",
            "    Thanks Ferenc Wágner for the report.",
            "",
            "  [ Jonathan Nieder ]",
            "  * Use default-mta instead of exim in dependency example (Closes: #892142).",
            "    Thanks to Paul Wise for the report."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            299007,
            515856,
            742364,
            881431,
            886890,
            888437,
            889167,
            889960,
            892142
         ],
         "epoch" : 1522944496,
         "timestamp" : "2018-04-05T16:08:16Z",
         "version" : "4.1.4.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  [ Sean Whitton ]",
            "  * Policy: Add CC0-1.0 to common-licenses",
            "    Wording: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
            "    Closes: #859649, #882628",
            "  * Policy: Clarify when Built-Using should be used",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
            "    Closes: #688251",
            "  * Policy: Use update-rc.d's defaults-disabled instead of DISABLED=yes",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>",
            "    Closes: #522163, #601455, #661496",
            "    - Also explain how the local administrator can enable/disable",
            "      autostarting daemons using update-rc.d.",
            "  * Point Vcs-* fields at salsa.debian.org.",
            "  * README: update references & URIs alioth->salsa",
            "  * Maintainer field: \"Debian Policy List\"->\"Debian Policy Editors\"",
            "    To match our new group on salsa.debian.org.",
            "",
            "  [ Russ Allbery ]",
            "  * Policy: Recommend that Vcs-* URLs provide confidentiality",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
            "    Closes: #810381",
            "  * Policy: Clarify that programs may search PATH for editor and pager",
            "    Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Closes: #880992",
            "  * Policy: Allow libc to install files in /lib64",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Closes: #885219",
            "  * Use the term 'synopsis' consistently in copyright-format.  Thanks, Ben",
            "    Finney.  (Closes: #874095)",
            "  * Fix various minor wording issues and add additional cross-references",
            "    in copyright-format.  Thanks, Ben Finney.  (Closes: #874090)",
            "  * Adapt tools/license-count to run against ftp-master metadata instead",
            "    of the Lintian lab, add patterns for CC0-1.0, and add some comments on",
            "    how to run this tool."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            522163,
            601455,
            661496,
            688251,
            810381,
            859649,
            874090,
            874095,
            880992,
            882628,
            885219
         ],
         "epoch" : 1514412835,
         "timestamp" : "2017-12-27T22:13:55Z",
         "version" : "4.1.3.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.1.2.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * Policy: /usr/bin/perl shebang 'should' -> 'must'",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>",
            "    Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
            "    Seconded: Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #683495",
            "  * Policy: Update where private shared object files may be installed",
            "    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #636383",
            "  * Policy: Convention for naming packages with potentially offensive content",
            "    Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Iain R. Learmonth <irl@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #882445",
            "  * Update links to other formats in 1.2 (Closes: #877674).",
            "    Thanks to Laura Arjona Reina for the patch.",
            "  * Fix duplication in upgrading checklist.",
            "    /nonexistent as the canonical home directory was listed under 4.1.1",
            "    and 4.1.0.",
            "  * Miscellaneous spelling fixes (Closes: #878523).",
            "    Thanks to Ville Skyttä for the patch.",
            "  * Drop workarounds in d/rules for the (reopened) dh_sphinxdoc bug #872863.",
            "    Thanks to Dmitry Shachnev for fixing the bug.",
            "    - Tighten build-dep on sphinx-common.",
            "  * Add a footnote documenting limitations on build-dependency",
            "    alternatives imposed by Debian's autobuilders (Closes: #614807).",
            "    Thanks to Sean Finney for the patch, and Simon McVittie for reviewing."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            614807,
            636383,
            683495,
            877674,
            878523,
            882445
         ],
         "epoch" : 1512080585,
         "timestamp" : "2017-11-30T22:23:05Z",
         "version" : "4.1.2.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * Fix some broken links in singlehtml output (Closes: #877573).",
            "    Thanks to Paul Wise for pointing out the problem."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            877573.0
         ],
         "epoch" : 1507090965,
         "timestamp" : "2017-10-04T04:22:45Z",
         "version" : "4.1.1.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  [ Russ Allbery ]",
            "  * Add back missing parentheses around the man page section in man page",
            "    references in the Policy manual, lost in the conversion to",
            "    reStructuredText.  Thanks, Daniel Shahaf.",
            "  * Revert the contents of the policy.html directory to the multi-page",
            "    HTML output.  (Closes: #872895)",
            "  * Move the single-page HTML output to policy-1.html, matching the",
            "    previous file name, and add the supporting _images and _static",
            "    directories to /usr/share/doc/debian-policy.",
            "  * Remove the stray policy.html.tar.gz file from the built package.",
            "    (Closes: #872896)",
            "  * Simplify the build rules for generating policy.html.",
            "  * Remove some stray build rules left over from DocBook Policy.",
            "  * Restructure the document to ensure proper section numbering in info",
            "    and PDF output except for the appendices.  The appendix numbering",
            "    will require a Sphinx change.  (Closes: #872893, #872950)",
            "  * Rename the info document to debian-policy.info to make it less",
            "    generic, and update the PNG file names accordingly.  (Closes: #872900)",
            "  * Reformat the shared libraries chapter (8) to move footnotes to the end",
            "    of the section of their references and use more succinct",
            "    reStructuredText syntax.  Fix some errors in the shlibs syntax and",
            "    examples introduced by the conversion, and missing newlines in the",
            "    footnote illustrating alternative templates that were lost in the",
            "    DocBook translation.",
            "  * Add a footnote documenting a (complex) command that returns the Debian",
            "    package name for a shared library.  Thanks, Jakub Wilk and Julien",
            "    Cristau.  (Closes: #661928)",
            "  * Add build dependency on latexmk.  (Closes: #873125)",
            "",
            "  [ Sean Whitton ]",
            "  * Policy: debian/changelog must exist in source packages",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #683222",
            "  * Policy: /nonexistent is the canonical non-existent home directory",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #679751",
            "  * Policy: Correct the description of Testsuite: field",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #870915",
            "    Thanks to Ondřej Nový for pointing out the problem.",
            "  * Fix a typo in 4.1.0 upgrading checklist (Closes: #873819).",
            "    Thanks, Martin Kepplinger.",
            "  * Add missing line breaks in summary of the ways in which maintainer",
            "    scripts may be called (Closes: #874411).",
            "    Thanks Sébastian Villemot for reporting the issue, and for the patch.",
            "  * Drop workarounds for dh_sphinxdoc's lack of support for singlehtml.",
            "    Thanks Dmitry Shachnev for the new support in dh_sphinxdoc.",
            "    - Tighten build-dep on sphinx-common."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            661928,
            679751,
            683222,
            870915,
            872893,
            872895,
            872896,
            872900,
            872950,
            873125,
            873819,
            874411
         ],
         "epoch" : 1506630466,
         "timestamp" : "2017-09-28T20:27:46Z",
         "version" : "4.1.1.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  [ Sean Whitton ]",
            "  * Policy: Packages should build reproducibly",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
            "    Seconded: Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Ximin Luo <infinity0@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #844431",
            "  * Policy: Restrictions on the use of /lib64/ and /usr/lib64/",
            "    Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Closes: #630174",
            "  * Policy: Clarify how `x-terminal-emulator -e` must behave",
            "    Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Closes: #648271",
            "  * Fix a singular/plural error in 9.6.",
            "    Thanks to Didier Raboud for pointing out the problem.",
            "  * Improve release process documentation in README.md.",
            "  * Policy changes process:",
            "    - Deprecate usage of the 'issue' usertag",
            "      It is usually very clear whether an issue is a policy matter, so bugs",
            "      can be simply closed, or moved to the 'discussion' phase.",
            "      In the rare case that it's not clear whether the bug is a policy matter,",
            "      it can remain unclassified, or be tagged 'moreinfo' (see below).",
            "    - Add policy-specific usage for the 'moreinfo' tag.",
            "  * tools/policy-bug-report:",
            "    - Enhance to fetch bugs that have a given usertag or combination of",
            "      usertags",
            "    - Improve the lists of bugs generated, for posting to Planet Debian.",
            "  * Add convention to upgrading checklist for indicating that a policy",
            "    requirement is covered by Lintian.",
            "",
            "  [ Russ Allbery ]",
            "  * Policy: Recommend including the upstream signing key",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>",
            "    Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
            "    Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #732445",
            "  * Policy: Clearly allow non-default alternative non-free dependencies",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Closes: #587279",
            "",
            "  [ Russ Allbery & Sean Whitton ]",
            "  * Convert the source of the Debian Policy Manual to reStructuredText,",
            "    built using the Sphinx toolchain.",
            "    Many thanks to Hideki Yamane <henrich@debian.or.jp> for the conversion",
            "    scripts, and pushing the project forward.",
            "    Thanks to David Bremner <bremner@debian.org> for help proofreading the",
            "    output.",
            "    - Drop PostScript output."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            587279,
            630174,
            648271,
            732445,
            844431
         ],
         "epoch" : 1503350262,
         "timestamp" : "2017-08-21T21:17:42Z",
         "version" : "4.1.0.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  [ Russ Allbery ]",
            "  * Policy: Overhaul priorities, deprecate extra",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
            "    Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>",
            "    Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #758234, #759260, #660249, #196367",
            "  * Policy: Clarify prohibition on depending on environment variables",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
            "    Closes: #640263",
            "",
            "  [ Sean Whitton ]",
            "  * Policy: Disambiguate \"original authors\" in 12.5",
            "    Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>",
            "    Closes: #678607",
            "  * Policy: Document Testsuite: field",
            "    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #758124",
            "  * Policy: Require calling ldconfig by means of triggers",
            "    Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
            "    Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #822430",
            "  * Policy: Make section 9 agnostic between Debian's init systems",
            "    Wording: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>",
            "    Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
            "    Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #835520",
            "  * Policy: Packages may not install both a desktop entry and a menu entry",
            "    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
            "    Seconded: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>",
            "    Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #839172",
            "  * Convert Process.md to an appendix to Policy itself.",
            "    - Update link in \"Authors and Maintainers\" to point to this new",
            "      appendix (Closes: #866192).",
            "  * Incorporate Margarita Manterola's maintscript flowcharts as a new",
            "    appendix (Closes: #485776).",
            "    Many thanks to David Bremner for help importing the images to docbook.",
            "    - Add a footnote to 6.6 linking to the new appendix.",
            "  * Update first paragraph of Appendix A to note that the final three",
            "    appendices (the policy changes process and the upgrading checklist)",
            "    were not taken from the Packaging Manual.",
            "  * Add a footnote linking to the REJECT-FAQ (Closes: #849853).",
            "  * Note that the debian/rules clean target is useless for removing files",
            "    not compatible with the DFSG (Closes: #849851).",
            "  * Add 'javascript', 'rust' archive sections (Closes: #867308).",
            "  * Drop remark that systems with only required packages installed are",
            "    \"probably unusable\", and add a paragraph break. (Closes: #589671)."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            196367,
            485776,
            589671,
            640263,
            660249,
            678607,
            758124,
            758234,
            759260,
            822430,
            835520,
            839172,
            849851,
            849853,
            866192,
            867308
         ],
         "epoch" : 1501984067,
         "timestamp" : "2017-08-06T01:47:47Z",
         "version" : "4.0.1.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.0.0.4) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * Fix URLs to Policy documents.  Policy previously used the full URL as",
            "    the link but a partial URL as anchor text, and then sometimes added",
            "    the full URL in parentheses.  The result was very ugly in the text",
            "    version.  Replace that style with just the full URL as anchor text for",
            "    a link to that URL, which is not ideal for HTML output but produces",
            "    reasonable results for both HTML and text.",
            "  * Extensive reformatting of the maintainer script section.",
            "    - Use <cmdsynopsis> in the summary of how maintainer scripts are",
            "      called, with a single <term>.  This avoids gluing all the command",
            "      summaries together with commas.  The output in text is radically",
            "      better; HTML has some font issues, but isn't awful.",
            "    - Avoid trailing newlines in <screen> examples, which produce extra",
            "      whitespace in text and HTML output.",
            "    - Use different numeration methods at different levels of the nested",
            "      ordered lists and ensure there is some introductory text for each",
            "      list element to avoid awkward formatting.",
            "  * Convert many of the <screen> tags in Policy to </programlisting> since",
            "    the semantics are slightly more correct.",
            "  * Remove the newline before </screen> or </programlisting> end tags,",
            "    since it produces an extraneous and distracting blank line in both",
            "    text and HTML output.",
            "  * Change the mapping of Perl module names to Debian package names in",
            "    the Perl Policy from a verbatim block to a table.",
            "  * Change the list of cron directories from a verbatim block to a list."
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 1498448067,
         "timestamp" : "2017-06-26T03:34:27Z",
         "version" : "4.0.0.4"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.0.0.3) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  [ Sean Whitton ]",
            "  * Fix typo 'the' -> 'they' in upgrading checklist (Closes: #865685).",
            "    Thanks Sven Joachim for the report.",
            "",
            "  [ Russ Allbery ]",
            "  * Move the autopkgtest, copyright-format, and debconf_specification",
            "    source files to the top-level directory and the debconf_spec/include",
            "    files to a debconf directory.  Simplify the build system to eliminate",
            "    recursive make, reuse the same XML version file for all files, and use",
            "    the same method of embedding a version in Markdown output for all",
            "    files.",
            "  * Fix dependencies so that version.xml is generated before XML",
            "    validation is done on XML source files.",
            "  * Move README.shlibdeps and libc6-migration.txt to a new historical",
            "    subdirectory and add a README explaining that the files in this",
            "    directory are of historical interest only and are not included in the",
            "    debian-policy binary package."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            865685.0
         ],
         "epoch" : 1498338679,
         "timestamp" : "2017-06-24T21:11:19Z",
         "version" : "4.0.0.3"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.0.0.2) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  [ Sean Whitton ]",
            "  * Update list of Policy Editors in various places.",
            "    See https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/06/msg00005.html",
            "",
            "  [ Russ Allbery ]",
            "  * Remove mention of the libc6 migration paper from the package long",
            "    description.  This is no longer shipped in the debian-policy package."
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 1497931108,
         "timestamp" : "2017-06-20T03:58:28Z",
         "version" : "4.0.0.2"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.0.0.1) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Upload to unstable.",
            "  * Clarify the conflict policy between /path and /usr/path by adding the",
            "    leading slash in front of the first path.  Thanks, Ferenc Wágner.",
            "  * Change http URLs to https for every resource available over https.",
            "  * Replace broken CPAN URL in the Perl policy with the current URL, and",
            "    turn this into an in-line link rather than a footnote with the full",
            "    URL.  This hides the URL in the text output, but it's not horribly",
            "    important for the text version and easy to find with a search.",
            "  * Fix formatting of the list of shlibs and symbol file locations.  These",
            "    were mistakenly converted to itemized lists instead of variable lists",
            "    during the DocBook conversion, which produced inferior output.",
            "  * Use UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1 as the character set for the text",
            "    versions of policy documents.",
            "  * Further standardize author and copyright notices.",
            "    - Add the notice from the main document that the copyright notices are",
            "      incomplete to the other documents with copyright notices.",
            "    - Add the Debian Policy Mailing List as an author of the debconf",
            "      specification.",
            "    - Replace (incorrect) Software in the Public Interest copyrights with",
            "      copyright notices for the original authors.",
            "    - Standardize capitalization of Debian Policy Mailing List in notices.",
            "    - Update copyright notices in debian/copyright.",
            "  * Add a full copy of the BSD license without advertising clause to the",
            "    <legalinfo> section of the debconf specification, instead of just a",
            "    reference to it.",
            "  * Update the GPL license statements to the current recommended form,",
            "    which doesn't include a street address for the FSF.  Use all-caps for",
            "    the warranty disclaimer just in case it matters.  Link to the general",
            "    FSF license page to make it easier to find the GPLv2, which is",
            "    technically the license under which these documents are distributed,",
            "    even if the GPLv3 may be used if desired.",
            "  * Completely rewrite the build system to use debhelper.",
            "    - Remove all hand-rolled package build rules and let debhelper do the",
            "      package construction.",
            "    - Remove gzip compression from the main build and let debhelper handle",
            "      compression of text files.  This allows debhelper to control the",
            "      gzip flags and do whatever is correct for reproducible builds.",
            "    - The top-level Makefile now has conventional all and install targets",
            "      that build all documents and would install them (not that anyone is",
            "      likely to use the install target other than the packaging).",
            "    - Get the document publication dates from debian/changelog instead of",
            "      the current date for more reproducible builds.",
            "    - Do xmllint validation of the copyright-format and debconf",
            "      specification documents as well.",
            "    - Remove a bunch of old leftovers from the clean and distclean targets",
            "      and make distclean identical to clean.  Stop cleaning editor",
            "      autosave files and patch droppings (this can be destructive).",
            "    - Move all doc-base files into the debian packaging directory.",
            "  * Restructure the command list in the debconf specification document to",
            "    pass xmllint, which didn't like including the body of an itemizedlist",
            "    as an XML entity.",
            "  * Add missing release date to the 4.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry.",
            "  * Fix tools/policy-bug-report to not fail when bug lists are empty and",
            "    to ignore closed bugs.",
            "  * Don't delete virtual-package-names-list.txt during make distclean.",
            "  * Make distclean depend on clean to remove stamp-* files.",
            "  * Update Standards-Version of the debian-policy package itself."
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 1497839268,
         "timestamp" : "2017-06-19T02:27:48Z",
         "version" : "4.0.0.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (4.0.0.0) experimental; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  [ Andreas Barth ]",
            "  * Policy: Add the MPLs to /usr/share/common-licenses",
            "    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #768292",
            "  * Policy: [5.6.12] forbid colons in package version numbers",
            "    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>",
            "    Thanks: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #792853",
            "  * Policy: [4.3] Update config.guess and config.sub during the build",
            "    Wording:  Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
            "    Seconded: Andreas Barth <aba@ayous.org>",
            "    Closes: #746514",
            "  * Spelling fixes, thanks to Martin A. Brown. Closes: #820197",
            "",
            "  [ Russ Allbery ]",
            "  * Policy: [10.9] Don't contact base-passwd maintainer for dynamic users",
            "    Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #841877",
            "  * Policy: Document Build-Depends-Arch and Build-Conflicts-Arch",
            "    Wording: Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #823910",
            "  * Policy: Add nodoc tag to DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>",
            "    Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #759186",
            "  * Policy: Prohibit file conflicts between /bin and /usr/bin",
            "    Wording: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Felipe Sateler <fsateler@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #759492",
            "  * Policy: Debug packages don't need a debian/control paragraph",
            "    Wording: Tanguy Ortolo <tanguy+debian@ortolo.eu>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #819660",
            "  * Policy: New dpkg-architecture flags",
            "    Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #793493",
            "  * Policy: Remove even the fallback to calling /etc/init.d directly",
            "    Wording: Ondřej Nový <onovy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>",
            "    Closes: #833177",
            "  * Policy: Limit strength of dependencies on -doc packages",
            "    Wording: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
            "    Closes: #823348",
            "  * Policy: Explicitly allow https form of copyright-format URL",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #850646",
            "  * Policy: Recommend libraryname-dev or librarynameAPIVERSION-dev",
            "    Wording: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #568374",
            "  * Policy: Add optional try-restart init status, make status recommended",
            "    Wording: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>",
            "    Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Felipe Sateler <fsateler@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Ondřej Nový <novy@ondrej.org>",
            "    Closes: #181123",
            "  * Policy: No special dependency now required for /run",
            "    Wording: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>",
            "    Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #852314",
            "  * Policy: Update policy on /dev and device file management",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>",
            "    Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #698012",
            "  * Policy: Remove integration instructions for upstart",
            "    Wording: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #835490",
            "  * Perl: Update module search path for multiarch support",
            "    Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>",
            "    Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #798309",
            "  * virtual-package-names-list: Add adventure",
            "    Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
            "    Closes: #821859",
            "  * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi3",
            "    Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Brian May <bam@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #768117",
            "  * virtual-package-names-list: Add virtual-mysql-* packages",
            "    Wording: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #829367",
            "  * Convert all remaining DebianDoc-SGML source files in the package to",
            "    DocBook XML.  Many thanks to Osamu Aoki and Guillem Jover for lots of",
            "    hard work on the conversion.  This was a huge conversion, so there",
            "    will probably be some lingering formatting issues, incorrect markup,",
            "    and less-than-ideal output.  Please report any problems as bugs.",
            "    (Closes: #175064, #700532, #809382)",
            "  * Additional fixes from Guillem Jover as part of the DocBook conversion:",
            "    - Stop distributing the source SGML files as part of the installed",
            "      package.  There doesn't seem to be any point in doing this.",
            "    - Switch to xsltproc and dblatex instead of OpenJade.",
            "    - Stop using tidy on the generated files since it generates larger",
            "      files and the output from xsltproc is already compliant and fairly",
            "      clean.",
            "    - Remove unused Build-Depends.",
            "    - Use entities instead of literal <, >, and & characters.",
            "    - Use <var> instead of escaped angle brackets for metavariables.",
            "    - Use <var> instead of <em> inside <tt>.",
            "    - Avoid slashes in section IDs.",
            "    - Convert a comment about maintenance policy in the Menu Policy",
            "      document to a regular paragraph in the document.",
            "    - Replace a comment reference to the policy maintenance process with",
            "      an actual link to Process.md.",
            "    - Remove obsolete SGML comments.",
            "  * Move the description of < and > relations to a footnote to make",
            "    abundantly clear that they're no longer valid relation operators in",
            "    dependencies.  (Closes: #816515)",
            "  * Clarify informative mentions of debian/tmp in the appendices to",
            "    document the now-common use of debian/<pkg> instead as the temporary",
            "    staging area.  Document that convention, instead of",
            "    debian/tmp-something, for multi-binary packages.  Thanks, Niels",
            "    Thykier.  (Closes: #816249)",
            "  * Remove lingering wording that implied that build-arch and build-indep",
            "    targets are optional.  Thanks, Ferenc Wagner, Jakub Wilk, and Charles",
            "    Plessy.  (Closes: #793999)",
            "  * Rather than giving the paths to the installed shlibs and symbols files",
            "    and then saying those paths shouldn't be used, just say to use",
            "    dpkg-query --control-show.  Recommend --control-show instead of",
            "    --control-path, since the latter is deprecated.  Patch from Salvatore",
            "    Bonaccorso.  (Closes: #688220)",
            "  * Explicitly give Unicode code points in the definition of the syntax of",
            "    Debian control files and, where appropriate, show the character.",
            "    Patch from Ben Finney.  (Closes: #821365)",
            "  * Remove obsolete footnote about a versioned dependency on a",
            "    liblockfile1 release from 1999.  Thanks, Jakub Wilk.  (Closes: #794902)",
            "  * Fix the long name of the Common Public License in the copyright-format",
            "    policy.  It is just Common Public License, with no leading \"IBM\".",
            "    Thanks, Stefano Zacchiroli.  (Closes: #781654)",
            "  * Fix the copyright-format examples to not have duplicate License",
            "    paragraphs.  Thanks, Stefan <bd@bc-bd.org>.  (Closes: #824922)",
            "  * Replace reference to dbus-launch in the autopkgtest documentation with",
            "    dbus-run-session.  Patch from Simon McVittie.  (Closes: #835876)",
            "  * Add an example of an architecture restriction in a dependency with",
            "    multiple architectures separated by spaces.  (Closes: #734662)",
            "  * Replace use of markdown with MultiMarkdown for the autopkgtest",
            "    documentation and convert README and Process to MultiMarkdown, thus",
            "    dropping the last org-mode files and the build dependency on Emacs.",
            "    Patch from Guillem Jover.  (Closes: #849483)",
            "  * Add some additional information to the upgrading-checklist entry for",
            "    the 3.9.8.0 release.",
            "  * Fix debian/changelog and upgrading-checklist dates for the 3.9.8.0",
            "    release to match the actual upload.  (Closes: #822059)",
            "  * Fix duplicated \"the\" words in 4.4 and 8.6.3.2.  Patch from Valentin",
            "    Samir.  (Closes: #830989)",
            "  * Clean up the upgrading checklist a bit:",
            "    - Rewrite the introduction to read a bit more smoothly and mention",
            "      that the Standards-Version value omits the minor patch number.",
            "    - Remove the minor patch number from all the version headings except",
            "      for the anomalies that contain normative changes, and note those",
            "      explicitly.",
            "    - Remove some unhelpful section headings and trailing colons in very",
            "      old upgrading checklist entries.",
            "    - Standardize the release date format.",
            "  * Compress all files with gzip -n to avoid embedding timestamps,",
            "    enabling reproducible builds.",
            "  * Redo some of the Makefile and debian/rules dependencies to avoid",
            "    ambiguous pattern rules and to ensure that make at the top level",
            "    rebuilds output files if input files change.",
            "  * Switch to https URLs for Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser.",
            "  * Use the same URL for both Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser, which now works",
            "    fine and has some advantages over the gitweb version for Vcs-Browser.",
            "    Thanks, Mattia Rizzolo.",
            "  * Run wrap-and-sort -ast.",
            "  * Tag as Multi-Arch: foreign (mostly to silence the hinter).",
            "",
            "  [ Sean Whitton ]",
            "  * Remove references to DebianDoc-SGML from README.md.",
            "  * Fix typo & comma splice in Process.md."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            175064,
            181123,
            568374,
            688220,
            698012,
            700532,
            734662,
            746514,
            759186,
            759492,
            768117,
            768292,
            781654,
            792853,
            793493,
            793999,
            794902,
            798309,
            809382,
            816249,
            816515,
            819660,
            820197,
            821365,
            821859,
            822059,
            823348,
            823910,
            824922,
            829367,
            830989,
            833177,
            835490,
            835876,
            841877,
            849483,
            850646,
            852314
         ],
         "epoch" : 1495999627,
         "timestamp" : "2017-05-28T19:27:07Z",
         "version" : "4.0.0.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.9.8.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
            "",
            "  * Policy: The Debian menu is optionally supported.",
            "    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezmeyer@gmail.com>",
            "    Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (for the menu entries)",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #707851"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            707851.0
         ],
         "epoch" : 1459914598,
         "timestamp" : "2016-04-06T03:49:58Z",
         "version" : "3.9.8.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.9.7.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Policy: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.",
            "  * Makefile: use gzip -n when compressing generated files.",
            "  * debian/control, Makefile:",
            "     - add missing Build-Depends on sp (opensp). Closes: #812663",
            "     - migrate to openjade and opensp.",
            "  * debian/rules: no more ship libc6-migration.txt. Closes: #797478",
            "  * Policy: Symbolic links must not traverse above the root directory.",
            "    Wording: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #555979",
            "  * Policy: [9.2.2] document 32-bit UIDs ranges.",
            "    Wording: Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #765499",
            "  * Policy: [5.1] empty field values in control files are only permitted in",
            "    the debian/control file of a source package.",
            "    Wording:  Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #666726",
            "  * Policy: [4.9] debian/rules: required targets must not attempt network",
            "    access.",
            "    Wording:  Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #770016",
            "  * Policy: [12.3] recommend to ship additional documentation for package 'pkg'",
            "    in a separate package 'pkg-doc' and install it into /usr/share/doc/pkg.",
            "    Wording:  Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #106073",
            "",
            "  [ Stefano Zacchiroli ]",
            "  * autopkgtest: new document containing the specification of automatic,",
            "    as-installed (AKA autopkgtest, or DEP-8) package tests",
            "    Closes: #799779"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            106073,
            555979,
            666726,
            765499,
            770016,
            797478,
            799779,
            812663
         ],
         "epoch" : 1454364231,
         "timestamp" : "2016-02-01T22:03:51Z",
         "version" : "3.9.7.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.9.6.1) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Fix FTBFS with emacs 24.4. Thanks to David Bremner <david@tethera.net>",
            "    for the help. Closes: #769219"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            769219.0
         ],
         "epoch" : 1416221755,
         "timestamp" : "2014-11-17T10:55:55Z",
         "version" : "3.9.6.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.9.6.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  [ Bill Allombert ]",
            "  * upgrading-checklist.sgml: remove spurious 'details in' leftover from",
            "    the HTML transition.  Closes: #740100. Thanks Jakub Wilk.",
            "  * debian/control:",
            "    - Build-Depends emacs-nox|emacs instead of emacs23. Closes: #753999",
            "    Thanks Gabriele Giacone and Rob Browning.",
            "  * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.",
            "  * Policy: [11.5.1] Web servers: Fix use of metasyntactic variables and",
            "    applications Closes: #737730. Thanks Olivier Berger.",
            "  * Policy: [5.6.21] Files: Fix typo \"by\" -> be. Closes: #753353.",
            "    Thanks Benedikt Wildenhain.",
            "  * Policy: Remove reference to DEHS (dead service)",
            "    Wording: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>",
            "    Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #731810",
            "  * Policy: Relax /usr/share FHS requirement for directories with mixed content.",
            "    Wording: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #741304",
            "  * Perl Policy: @INC has /usr/lib/perl/5.18, not /usr/lib/perl/5.18.2",
            "    Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #748480",
            "  * Perl Policy: Explain %Config earlier",
            "    Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #748479",
            "  * Perl Policy: @INC changes for multiarch",
            "    Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #748380",
            "  * Perl Policy: Packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-*",
            "    dependency",
            "    Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #750017",
            "  * Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch headers directories",
            "    Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #742756",
            "  * Policy: Discourage statically linked binaries",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
            "    Closes: #555980",
            "  * Policy: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
            "    Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #593611",
            "  * Policy: Change default web document root to /var/www/html",
            "    Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Arno Töll <arno@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>",
            "    Closes: #491547",
            "  * virtual-package-names-list: Update java runtime list",
            "    Wording: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>",
            "    Seconded: Tony Mancill <tmancill@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #754876",
            "  * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi",
            "    Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>",
            "    Seconded: Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #588497",
            "  [ Jonathan Nieder ]",
            "  * Policy: Drop FHS requirement that /usr/local/lib<qual> exist when /lib<qual>",
            "    or /usr/lib<qual> does.",
            "    Wording: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>",
            "    Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #613143"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            491547,
            555980,
            588497,
            593611,
            613143,
            731810,
            737730,
            740100,
            741304,
            742756,
            748380,
            748479,
            748480,
            750017,
            753353,
            753999,
            754876
         ],
         "epoch" : 1410977000,
         "timestamp" : "2014-09-17T18:03:20Z",
         "version" : "3.9.6.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Policy: Document the Package-List field.",
            "    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #697433",
            "  * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete",
            "    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #679326",
            "  * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory",
            "    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #690293",
            "  * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
            "    Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #698030",
            "  * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.",
            "    Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
            "    Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #669915",
            "  * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.",
            "    Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
            "    Closes: #715804",
            "  * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.",
            "    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
            "    Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>",
            "    Closes: #701081",
            "  * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.",
            "    Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>",
            "    Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #720507",
            "  * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.",
            "    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #707183",
            "  * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.",
            "    Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
            "    Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #707077",
            "  * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.",
            "    Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #706778",
            "  * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.",
            "    Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
            "    Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #671355",
            "  * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.",
            "    Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
            "    Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>",
            "    Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #668394",
            "  * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover",
            "  * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.",
            "    Closes: #700574.  Thanks, Guillem Jover.",
            "  * Update dak reference from old katie name.",
            "    Closes: #700536.  Thanks, Guillem Jover.",
            "  * Fix typo in 8.6.4.  Thanks, Raúl Benencia.  (Closes: #691352)",
            "  * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1.  Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.",
            "  * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.",
            "    Closes: #703022.  Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.",
            "  * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.",
            "    Closes: #704657.  Thanks, Philipp Hahn.",
            "  * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.",
            "    Closes: #705403",
            "  * Clarify what is meant by \"compressed\" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)",
            "  * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.",
            "  * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool \"config-model-edit\".",
            "  * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            668394,
            669915,
            671355,
            676784,
            679326,
            690293,
            691352,
            697433,
            698030,
            700536,
            700574,
            701081,
            703022,
            704657,
            705403,
            706778,
            707077,
            707183,
            715804,
            720507
         ],
         "epoch" : 1382920848,
         "timestamp" : "2013-10-28T00:40:48Z",
         "version" : "3.9.5.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,",
            "    implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385.  Wording",
            "    review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.",
            "    (Closes: #374029)",
            "  * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.",
            "    Patch from Charles Plessy.  (Closes: #670429)",
            "  * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #661933",
            "  * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations",
            "    Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #663918",
            "  * Policy: Document the Built-Using field",
            "    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #641153",
            "  * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields",
            "    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #654958",
            "  * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy",
            "    Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #676561",
            "  * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
            "    Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #571776",
            "  * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements",
            "    Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>",
            "    Closes: #591791",
            "  * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime",
            "    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #661816"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            374029,
            571776,
            591791,
            641153,
            654958,
            661816,
            661933,
            663918,
            670429,
            676561
         ],
         "epoch" : 1348029336,
         "timestamp" : "2012-09-19T04:35:36Z",
         "version" : "3.9.4.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source",
            "    package control files).  Thanks, Jakub Wilk.  (Closes: #661412)",
            "  * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.",
            "    Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)",
            "    and GNU find -path without [] patterns.  Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and",
            "    Ben Finney.",
            "  * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking",
            "    whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending",
            "    dash.  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #490604)",
            "  * Remove the ambiguous word \"installed\" when requiring that the location",
            "    of files and directories follow the FHS.  (Closes: #638060)",
            "  * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not",
            "    contain spaces.  Thanks, Charles Plessy.  (Closes: #647645)",
            "  * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided",
            "    (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist",
            "    or perform the equivalent actions.  Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some",
            "    of the wording.  (Closes: #601839)",
            "  * Clearly state that \"yes\" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed",
            "    and rewrite its description to be less indirect.  (Closes: #622263)",
            "  * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to",
            "    reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot.  Wording from Sam",
            "    Morris.  (Closes: #658009)",
            "  * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent",
            "    copyright notice.",
            "  * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf",
            "    specification and the copyright-format document.  We'll make",
            "    non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's",
            "    good to know which version one is looking at.",
            "  * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.",
            "  * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html",
            "    directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on",
            "    www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to",
            "    work easily.  Thanks, Charles Plessy.  (Partly addresses #639663)",
            "  * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz",
            "    without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just",
            "    the current version.",
            "  * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading",
            "    checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.",
            "  * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.",
            "  * Expand package long description to include all documents.",
            "  * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build.  Thanks,",
            "    Charles Plessy.",
            "  * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,",
            "    references to old files no longer included, use a more standard",
            "    layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better",
            "    maintainability.",
            "  * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process",
            "    add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself",
            "    and the FHS.  Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement",
            "    for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            490604,
            601839,
            622263,
            638060,
            647645,
            658009,
            661412
         ],
         "epoch" : 1330902132,
         "timestamp" : "2012-03-04T23:02:12Z",
         "version" : "3.9.3.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  [ Russ Allbery ]",
            "  * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the",
            "    DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion",
            "    in debian-devel and debian-project.  Revise for clarity, to add more",
            "    examples, and to update the GFDL license versions.  Thanks, Steve",
            "    Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.",
            "    (Closes: #658209, #648387)",
            "  * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so",
            "    that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of",
            "    the standard.  Patch from Charles Plessy.  (Closes: #646119)",
            "  * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package",
            "    Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #626779",
            "  * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright",
            "    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
            "    Closes: #593533",
            "  * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions",
            "    Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>",
            "    Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>",
            "    Closes: #609162",
            "  * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #23712",
            "  * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>",
            "    Closes: #620870, #532120",
            "  * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty",
            "    Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #498300",
            "  * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy",
            "    Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
            "    Closes: #89038",
            "  * Consistently use \"Debian source control file\" for *.dsc files and",
            "    \"Source package control file\" for debian/control files.  Patch from",
            "    Charles Plessy.  (Closes: #626796)",
            "  * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must",
            "    contain at least one non-whitespace character.  Thanks, Guillem Jover.",
            "    (Closes: #627490)",
            "  * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if",
            "    the chown or chmod fail.  Thanks, Joey Hess.  (Closes: #617315)",
            "  * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level",
            "    directory to another and add examples and a rationale.  Thanks,",
            "    Carsten Hey.  (Closes: #626338)",
            "  * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl",
            "    source package and the manual page extensions are different for",
            "    separate module packages.  Thanks, Steve Langasek.  (Closes: #643690)",
            "  * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,",
            "    bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line",
            "    with the long-standing release goal.  (Closes: #646166)",
            "  * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding",
            "    education, introspection, and metapackages.  Patch from Charles",
            "    Plessy.  (Closes: #651020)",
            "  * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or",
            "    Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either.  Partly",
            "    addresses #587279.",
            "  * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples.  Thanks,",
            "    Slavko.",
            "  * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.",
            "  * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.",
            "  * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths.  Thanks,",
            "    Michael Dorrington.  (Closes: #626408)",
            "  * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,",
            "    when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link",
            "    to specific entries.  Patch from Charles Plessy.",
            "  * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.",
            "  * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.",
            "  * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.",
            "",
            "  [ Bill Allombert ]",
            "  * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification",
            "    strings (11.1).",
            "    Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.",
            "  * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)",
            "    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>",
            "    Closes: #621479",
            "  * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.",
            "    Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.",
            "    Closes: #623050",
            "  * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.",
            "    Patch by Charles Plessy.  Closes: #628540",
            "  * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.",
            "    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #641071",
            "  * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright",
            "    files (12.5)",
            "    Wording:  Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #617516",
            "  * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix",
            "    Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>",
            "    Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #640735",
            "  * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.",
            "    Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
            "    Closes: #649674",
            "  * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:",
            "    Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>",
            "    Closes: #633797",
            "  * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org",
            "    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #640737",
            "  * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger",
            "    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",
            "  * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to",
            "    fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.",
            "    Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>",
            "    Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #644230",
            "  * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.",
            "    Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
            "    Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #578421",
            "  * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.",
            "    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #637614"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            23712,
            89038,
            498300,
            532120,
            578421,
            593533,
            609162,
            617315,
            617516,
            619275,
            620870,
            621479,
            623050,
            626338,
            626408,
            626779,
            626796,
            627490,
            628540,
            633797,
            637614,
            640735,
            640737,
            641071,
            643690,
            644230,
            646119,
            646166,
            648387,
            649674,
            651020,
            658209
         ],
         "epoch" : 1329968436,
         "timestamp" : "2012-02-23T03:40:36Z",
         "version" : "3.9.3.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #459868, #581011",
            "  * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #594658",
            "  * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed",
            "    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #588014",
            "  * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming",
            "    Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>",
            "    Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #619186",
            "  * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #504880",
            "  * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields",
            "    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #501930, #593909",
            "  * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #488214",
            "  * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host",
            "    architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than",
            "    machine.  (Closes: #591857)",
            "  * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package",
            "    description.  Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer.  (Closes: #590696)",
            "  * Use the word \"implemented\" to describe required targets in",
            "    debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules.  List",
            "    the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the",
            "    paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules",
            "    as either required or optional.  (Closes: #536790)",
            "  * 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 introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly",
            "    the purpose of that archive area.  Based on a proposal by CJ",
            "    Fearnley.  (Closes: #594542)",
            "  * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply",
            "    Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures.  Patch",
            "    from Guillem Jover.  (Closes: #594656)",
            "  * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.",
            "  * Update the list of Policy maintainers.",
            "  * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.",
            "  * 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.",
            "  * 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)",
            "  * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.",
            "    Thanks, David Prévot.  (Closes: #606869)",
            "  * 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)",
            "  * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.",
            "    This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the",
            "    3.9.3.0 release.  Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars",
            "    Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy",
            "    package.  (Closes: #609160)"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            459868,
            488214,
            501930,
            504880,
            536790,
            581011,
            588014,
            590696,
            591857,
            593909,
            594274,
            594542,
            594656,
            594658,
            597074,
            599944,
            606869,
            609160,
            619186
         ],
         "epoch" : 1302155335,
         "timestamp" : "2011-04-07T05:48:55Z",
         "version" : "3.9.2.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #436105",
            "  * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #561413",
            "  * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #218897",
            "  * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>",
            "  * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #509932",
            "  * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #400322",
            "  * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #402721",
            "  * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>",
            "    Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #475101",
            "  * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
            "    Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #104373",
            "  * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #186102",
            "  * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #184064",
            "  * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>",
            "    Closes: #509933",
            "  * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions",
            "    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #589609",
            "  * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>",
            "    Closes: #232448",
            "  * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #445203",
            "  * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #477240",
            "  * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #555977",
            "  * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy",
            "    package.",
            "  * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and",
            "    provide some examples.  (Closes: #175202)",
            "  * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the",
            "    switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly",
            "    mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.",
            "  * Introduce \"control information file\" to refer to the contents of the",
            "    Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation.  Use",
            "    that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing",
            "    references to fields in control files to use \"control field\"",
            "    uniformly.",
            "  * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally",
            "    an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular",
            "    maintainer.  Patch from Charles Plessy.  (Closes: #589605)",
            "  * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist.  (Closes: #588750)",
            "  * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7.  (Closes: #589362)",
            "  * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            104373,
            175202,
            184064,
            186102,
            218897,
            232448,
            400322,
            402721,
            436105,
            445203,
            475101,
            477240,
            509932,
            509933,
            555977,
            561413,
            588750,
            589362,
            589605,
            589609
         ],
         "epoch" : 1280111901,
         "timestamp" : "2010-07-26T02:38:21Z",
         "version" : "3.9.1.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  [ Colin Watson ]",
            "  * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.",
            "",
            "  [ Bill Allombert ]",
            "  * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better",
            "    looking .txt file.",
            "    Closes: #567845",
            "  * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.",
            "    Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)",
            "  * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information",
            "    and distribution license' (three times).",
            "    Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.",
            "    Seconded:  Steve Langasek  <vorlon@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded:  Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded:  Julien Cristau  <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded:  Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #566220",
            "  * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved",
            "    ranges.",
            "    Proposed by Santiago Vila",
            "    Seconded:  Russ Allbery    <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded:  Luk Claes       <luk@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded:  Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded:  Steve Langasek  <vorlon@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #582495",
            "",
            "  [ Russ Allbery ]",
            "  * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #578854",
            "  * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards",
            "    Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
            "    Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #530687",
            "  * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #562506",
            "  * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
            "    Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #224509",
            "  * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries",
            "    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
            "    Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #569174",
            "  * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #284340",
            "  * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>",
            "    Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #478295",
            "  * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #555978",
            "  * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
            "    Closes: #347581",
            "  * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
            "    Closes: #575639",
            "  * Policy: Update Format control field documentation",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>",
            "    Closes: #547272",
            "  * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template",
            "    Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>",
            "    Closes: #560411",
            "  * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version",
            "    Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #579457",
            "  * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL",
            "    Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #579461",
            "  * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,",
            "    renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform",
            "    capitalization and punctuation.  (Closes: #442134)",
            "  * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats.  This feature",
            "    is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the",
            "    dpkg-dev documentation instead.  The documentation that was in Policy",
            "    was also somewhat outdated.  (Closes: #555009, see #584141)",
            "  * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a",
            "    new feature and not well-known.  (Closes: #563425)",
            "  * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and",
            "    don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base.  (Closes: #576594)",
            "  * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current",
            "    sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which",
            "    contains longer descriptions.  (Closes: #577666)",
            "  * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg.  This",
            "    list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already",
            "    noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.",
            "  * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote.  (Closes: #560839)",
            "  * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more",
            "    traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and",
            "    README.html.  (Closes: #584521)",
            "  * Fix typo in footnote about help2man.  (Closes: #584796)",
            "  * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split.  Thanks, Uwe",
            "    Kleine-König.  (Closes: #572253)",
            "  * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete",
            "    configuration files during  upgrade.  (Closes: #470633)",
            "  * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied",
            "    for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the",
            "    description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why",
            "    this split does not currently work as desired.  (Closes: #328951)",
            "  * Avoid \"Debianised\" or \"Debianized\" in favor of just \"Debian\" or",
            "    \"Debian package\" as appropriate.  Patch from Ben Finney.",
            "    (Closes: #586163)",
            "  * Switch to source format 3.0 (native)."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            224509,
            284340,
            328951,
            347581,
            442134,
            470633,
            478295,
            530687,
            547272,
            555009,
            555978,
            558430,
            560411,
            560839,
            562506,
            563425,
            566220,
            567845,
            569174,
            572253,
            575639,
            576594,
            577666,
            578854,
            579457,
            579461,
            582495,
            584521,
            584796,
            586163
         ],
         "epoch" : 1277700052,
         "timestamp" : "2010-06-28T04:40:52Z",
         "version" : "3.9.0.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  [ Bill Allombert ]",
            "  * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.",
            "    Proposed by Jari Aalto.",
            "    Closes: #544353",
            "  * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.",
            "    Proposed by Enrico Zini.",
            "    Closes: #550192",
            "",
            "  [ Manoj Srivastava ]",
            "  * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for",
            "    pointing this out.",
            "  * [c74ac74]:",
            "    Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories",
            "    Wording: Steve Langasek.",
            "    Seconded: Aurelien Jarno",
            "    Seconded: Julien Cristau",
            "    Seconded: Kurt Roeckx",
            "    Closes: #542865",
            "  * [7ac3ee6]:",
            "    virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages",
            "    Wording: Manoj Srivastava",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery",
            "    Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi",
            "    Closes: #518199",
            "  * [8fd91a0]",
            "    README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode",
            "    Wording: Manoj Srivastava",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery",
            "    Closes: #545548",
            "  * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:",
            "    policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors",
            "    wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki",
            "    Seconded: Manoj Srivastava",
            "  * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions",
            "    policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions",
            "    Wording: Manoj Srivastava",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Kurt Roeckx  <kurt@roeckx.be>",
            "    Closes: #556972",
            "    This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional",
            "    directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.",
            "  * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line",
            "    policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line",
            "    Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>",
            "    Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
            "    Explicitly state that  \"make -f debian/rules\" and \"./debian/rules\"",
            "    must behave  identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote",
            "    reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.",
            "  * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package",
            "    policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon",
            "    wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Kurt Roeckx  <kurt@roeckx.be>",
            "    Closes: #391836",
            "    Create a virtual cron daemon package that:",
            "     - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries",
            "     - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d",
            "     - Correct support of /etc/crontab",
            "     - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,",
            "       ranges, step values",
            "     - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}",
            "",
            "  [ Russ Allbery ]",
            "  * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
            "  * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to",
            "    avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords.  Thanks, Jakub Wilk.",
            "    (Closes: #552757)"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            391836,
            518199,
            542865,
            544353,
            545548,
            550192,
            552757,
            556972
         ],
         "epoch" : 1264616563,
         "timestamp" : "2010-01-27T18:22:43Z",
         "version" : "3.8.4.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #530967",
            "  * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables",
            "    Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
            "    Closes: #527871",
            "  * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #514919",
            "  * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf",
            "    Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>",
            "    Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>",
            "    Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #519941",
            "  * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #522217",
            "  * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #493007",
            "  * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding",
            "    Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>",
            "    Closes: #537707",
            "  * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #533852",
            "  * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #538665",
            "  * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements",
            "    Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #525190",
            "  * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop",
            "    warnings against its use.  Thanks, Steve Langasek.  (Closes: #533577)",
            "  * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section",
            "    on binary dependencies.  Thanks, Frank Küster.  (Closes: #529771)",
            "  * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an",
            "    approximation.  Thanks, Martin Dorey.  (Closes: #534408)",
            "  * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in",
            "    the postrm script.  Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld.  (Closes: #539389)",
            "  * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual",
            "    and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent",
            "    revisions available.  (Partly addresses #47438)",
            "  * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.",
            "  * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications",
            "    for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and",
            "    add more details about the contents of the Description field in",
            "    a *.changes file.",
            "  * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and",
            "    Source field descriptions.",
            "  * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the",
            "    sensible-utils package, not by the base system.  Thanks, Clint Adams",
            "    and Steve Langasek.  (Closes: #541537)",
            "  * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field",
            "    description says otherwise."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            493007,
            514919,
            519941,
            522217,
            525190,
            527871,
            529771,
            530967,
            533577,
            533852,
            534408,
            537707,
            538665,
            539389,
            541537
         ],
         "epoch" : 1250381606,
         "timestamp" : "2009-08-16T00:13:26Z",
         "version" : "3.8.3.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  [ Russ Allbery ]",
            "  * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting",
            "    Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
            "    Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>",
            "    Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #206684",
            "  * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception",
            "    Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>",
            "    Closes: #522219",
            "  * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
            "    Closes: #522364",
            "  * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category",
            "    Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #522218",
            "  * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):",
            "    - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.",
            "    - Update the list of archive sections.  (Closes: #519835)",
            "  * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.",
            "    (Closes: #519706)",
            "",
            "  [ Colin Watson ]",
            "  * The FHS is the \"Filesystem Hierarchy Standard\", regardless of our",
            "    preferred spelling of \"file system\" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby",
            "    search-and-replace capitalisation bug.",
            "  * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by",
            "    debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.",
            "    Closes: #533257",
            "  * Policy: State requirements for source package names",
            "    Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #525151",
            "  * Add myself to Uploaders.",
            "",
            "  [ Bill Allombert ]",
            "  * Add myself to Uploaders.",
            "  * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).",
            "  * debian/rules:",
            "    - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form",
            "      `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.",
            "    - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            206684,
            519706,
            519835,
            522218,
            522219,
            522364,
            525151,
            533257
         ],
         "epoch" : 1245181373,
         "timestamp" : "2009-06-16T19:42:53Z",
         "version" : "3.8.2.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Policy: Clarify what \"sensible behavior\" is for init scripts",
            "    Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #426877",
            "  * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #489460",
            "  * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>",
            "    Closes: #241333",
            "  * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>",
            "    Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #143941",
            "  * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #416450",
            "  * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #473019",
            "  * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #479080",
            "  * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>",
            "    Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #470994",
            "  * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh",
            "    Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #513955",
            "  * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile",
            "    Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>",
            "    Closes: #514326",
            "  * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #446712",
            "  * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions",
            "    in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion",
            "    on upgrade and handle error cases correctly.  Thanks to Olivier Berger",
            "    for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review.  (Closes: #483418)",
            "  * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies",
            "    in the presence of alternatives.  Thanks to Guillem Jover for the",
            "    explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong",
            "    for wording review.  (Closes: #163666)",
            "  * Change the term \"category\" to \"archive area\" when referring to main,",
            "    contrib, and non-free.  This is closer to the wording of the Social",
            "    Contract.  (Closes: #473439)",
            "  * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in",
            "    multiple places.  Thanks, Kurt Roeckx.  (Closes: #488039)",
            "  * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry.  Patch from Kobayashi",
            "    Noritada.  (Closes: #487701)",
            "  * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with",
            "    extra priority.  Thanks, Charles Plessy.  (Closes: #491985)",
            "  * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf",
            "    messages.  Capitalize \"Debian Configuration Management Specification\"",
            "    uniformly.  Thanks, Julian Andres Klode.  (Closes: #492624)",
            "  * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for",
            "    extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option",
            "    behavior.  Thanks, Yan Morin.  (Closes: #503685)",
            "  * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero",
            "    status on success to avoid double-negatives.",
            "  * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the",
            "    portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category",
            "    lists.  Thanks, Christoph Berg.  (Closes: #511804)",
            "  * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra.  texlive appears to",
            "    be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far",
            "    fewer packages.",
            "  * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts.  doc-base registration is now",
            "    handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc",
            "    links was completed long ago.",
            "  * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            143941,
            163666,
            241333,
            416450,
            426877,
            446712,
            470994,
            473019,
            473439,
            479080,
            483418,
            487701,
            488039,
            489460,
            491985,
            492624,
            503685,
            511804,
            513955,
            514326
         ],
         "epoch" : 1236829852,
         "timestamp" : "2009-03-12T03:50:52Z",
         "version" : "3.8.1.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process",
            "    document.  Thanks, Adrian von Bidder.  (Closes: #484706)"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            484706.0
         ],
         "epoch" : 1212696781,
         "timestamp" : "2008-06-05T20:13:01Z",
         "version" : "3.8.0.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSAL] \"debian/README.source\" file for packages with",
            "    non-trivial source\", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,",
            "    and Junichi Uekawa                                       (Closes: #250202).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding\", thanks to",
            "    Colin Watson                                             (Closes: #440420).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in",
            "    DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS\", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert",
            "    Millan                                                   (Closes: #209008).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS\", thanks to",
            "    Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover",
            "                                                             (Closes: #430649).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"Documentation for Breaks in dpkg\", thanks to Ian Jackson",
            "                                                             (Closes: #379150).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory\"",
            "                                                             (Closes: #431813).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages\",",
            "    thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,",
            "    Kurt Roeckx, and others                                  (Closes: #392362).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"Homepage field in debian/control undocumented\", thanks to",
            "    Mario Iseli                                              (Closes: #452105).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer",
            "    used\", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson",
            "                                                             (Closes: #442070).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in",
            "    /usr/share/common-licenses\", thanks to Barry Hawkins     (Closes: #291460).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is",
            "    not a part of Debian distribution\", thanks to Taketoshi Sano",
            "                                                             (Closes: #65577).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"scripts as configuration files: should vs. must\", thanks to Frank",
            "    Küster                                                   (Closes: #403391).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debconf specification should allow underscores in template",
            "    names\", thanks to Colin Watson                           (Closes: #473761).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs\",",
            "    thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog           (Closes: #367984).",
            "  * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #186700, #458910",
            "  * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions",
            "    Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
            "    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
            "    Closes: #480551",
            "  * Bug fix: \"Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now\", thanks",
            "    to Josh Triplett                                         (Closes: #455602).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"Minor typos and wording suggestions\", thanks to Michael",
            "    Tautschnig                                               (Closes: #422552).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to",
            "    deb-substvars(5)\", thanks to Ian Beckwith                (Closes: #475731).",
            "  * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed",
            "    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)",
            "    Closes: #481640",
            "  * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos",
            "    Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>",
            "    Closes: #481954",
            "  * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.",
            "  * Add an md5sums control file.",
            "  * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.",
            "  * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.",
            "  * Remove more temporary files created by the build.",
            "  * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are",
            "    currently part of policy.",
            "  * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.",
            "  * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.",
            "  * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts",
            "    and debian/rules."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            65577,
            186700,
            209008,
            250202,
            291460,
            367984,
            379150,
            392362,
            403391,
            422552,
            430649,
            431813,
            440420,
            442070,
            452105,
            455602,
            458910,
            473761,
            475731,
            480551,
            481640,
            481954
         ],
         "epoch" : 1212620007,
         "timestamp" : "2008-06-04T22:53:27Z",
         "version" : "3.8.0.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Bug fix: \"FTBFS if built twice in a row\"                 (Closes: #424212).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers\", thanks",
            "    to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt                (Closes: #382612).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that",
            "    /bin/sh can be expected to offer\". Also add test -a/-o binary logical",
            "    operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3      (Closes: #294962).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"[Proposal] new Debian menu structure\", thanks to Bill",
            "    Allombert                                                (Closes: #361418).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"typo: \"must not be not world-writable\"\", thanks to Sam",
            "    Hocevar                                                  (Closes: #392594).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead\",",
            "    thanks to Guillem Jover                                  (Closes: #418444).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"New virtual package: dictd-dictionary\", thanks to Tatsuya",
            "    Kinoshita                                                (Closes: #413575).",
            "  * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.",
            "    Adjust the virtual package list to match.  Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita",
            "    and Marco d'Itri.",
            "  * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of",
            "    virtual packages.",
            "  * Bug fix: \"Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy\",",
            "    thanks to Michiel de Boer.                               (Closes: #435207).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"Source field of .changes files may contain a version number\"",
            "                                                             (Closes: #431813).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)\"  (Closes: #448035).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative",
            "    list?\"                                                   (Closes: #412634).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs",
            "    files\", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog          (Closes: #363133).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf",
            "    templates\", thanks to Christian Perrier                  (Closes: #402975).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"GFDL is now in common-licenses\".  Also add the rest of the",
            "    specific license versions and the GPLv3                  (Closes: #420701).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"Virtual package for Japanese font packages",
            "    (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)\", thanks to Nobuhiro",
            "    Iwamatsu                                                 (Closes: #440931).",
            "  * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the",
            "    debconf specification.",
            "  * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.",
            "  * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required)."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            294962,
            361418,
            363133,
            382612,
            392594,
            402975,
            412634,
            413575,
            418444,
            420701,
            424212,
            431813,
            435207,
            440931,
            448035
         ],
         "epoch" : 1196663635,
         "timestamp" : "2007-12-03T06:33:55Z",
         "version" : "3.7.3.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Bug fix: \"clarify 12.3 Additional documentation\", thanks to Peter",
            "    Eisentraut                                               (Closes: #367697).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/\", thanks to Justin",
            "    Pryzby                                                   (Closes: #375508).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"various spelling mistakes\", thanks to Nico Golde",
            "                                                             (Closes: #375728).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: typo\", thanks to Peter Samuelson",
            "                                                             (Closes: #376104).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be",
            "    world writable\", thanks to Kari Pahula                   (Closes: #376438).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;",
            "    s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add",
            "    quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?\", thanks to Justin Pryzby",
            "                                                             (Closes: #377215).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in",
            "    /usr/share/common-licenses\", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is",
            "    premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we",
            "    actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"circular dependencies, improved guarantees\", thanks to Ian",
            "    Jackson                                                  (Closes: #379630).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense\", thanks to Peter",
            "    Eisentraut                                               (Closes: #380692).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove",
            "    case\", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not",
            "    the place to document such material.                     (Closes: #373212).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"use of &quot;invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?&quot; in",
            "    prerm scripts\", thanks to Lars Wirzenius                 (Closes: #370471).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms\",",
            "    thanks to Frank Küster                                   (Closes: #367531).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: s/with With/with /\", thanks to Justin Pryzby",
            "                                                             (Closes: #379974).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: \"$RET\" not \"RET\"\", thanks to Justin Pryzby",
            "                                                             (Closes: #386178).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:",
            "    exceptiions\", thanks to Andreas Janssen                  (Closes: #388302).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers\", thanks",
            "    to Jakob Bohm                                            (Closes: #382612).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'\",",
            "    thanks to Andrew Lee                                     (Closes: #385935).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver",
            "    package\", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu)              (Closes: #387027)."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            367531,
            367697,
            370471,
            373212,
            375508,
            375728,
            376104,
            376438,
            377215,
            378386,
            379630,
            379974,
            380692,
            382612,
            385935,
            386178,
            387027,
            388302
         ],
         "epoch" : 1159828283,
         "timestamp" : "2006-10-02T22:31:23Z",
         "version" : "3.7.2.2"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: s/control are/&amp;a/; s/stats/status/;",
            "    s/and/an/; s/'/&quot;/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/&amp; that/; s/like",
            "    like/look like/;\", thanks to Justin Pryzby                (Closes: #372147).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53\", thanks to Jordà",
            "    Polo                                                      (Closes: #372497).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: &quot;'..' character&quot;",
            "    should be &quot;'.' character&quot;\", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny",
            "                                                              (Closes: #372522).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt\",",
            "    thanks to Kevin B. McCarty                                (Closes: #366466).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"typo: package remains in and &quot;Installed' state\", thanks",
            "    to Sam Hocevar \\(Debian packages\\)                        (Closes: #369413).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies\", thanks to Stefan",
            "    Huehner                                                   (Closes: #366032).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'\", thanks to",
            "    Thomas Weber                                              (Closes: #369912).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new\", thanks",
            "    to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola",
            "                                                              (Closes: #372148).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap\",",
            "    thanks to Peter Samuelson                                 (Closes: #372731).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section\",",
            "    thanks to Ian Jackson                                     (Closes: #369011).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"GNU office not on Temple Place anymore\", thanks to Dan",
            "    Jacobson                                                  (Closes: #366889)."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            366032,
            366466,
            366889,
            369011,
            369413,
            369912,
            372147,
            372148,
            372497,
            372522,
            372731
         ],
         "epoch" : 1150780699,
         "timestamp" : "2006-06-20T05:18:19Z",
         "version" : "3.7.2.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Revert the cgi-lib change.",
            "  * Bug fix: \"Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and",
            "    Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)\", thanks to Christoph Berg",
            "    Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.",
            "                                                             (Closes: #328951).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning\",",
            "    thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst                                (Closes: #365907)."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            328951,
            365907
         ],
         "epoch" : 1146697639,
         "timestamp" : "2006-05-03T23:07:19Z",
         "version" : "3.7.2.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission",
            "    when upgrading\", thanks to Bill Allombert               (Closes: #136318).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"[DISCUSS] documentation of the \"-fPIC\" constraint\", thanks",
            "    to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard",
            "    directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and",
            "    static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed  when",
            "    doing so.                                               (Closes: #329762).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"Minor typo in upgrading checklist\", thanks to David",
            "    Weinehall                                               (Closes: #364982).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"Typo in upgrading-checklist\", thanks to David Weinehall",
            "                                                            (Closes: #364983).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"typo in debian policy section 10.9.1\", thanks to Miguel Gea",
            "    Milvaques                                                (Closes: #365058).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some",
            "    clarifications\", thanks to Robert Luberda                (Closes: #365356).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11\", thanks to",
            "    Drew Parsons                                             (Closes: #365510).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: typo in policy-process:",
            "    &quot;Guideliens&quot;\", thanks to Lars Wirzenius        (Closes: #360518).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4\", thanks to",
            "    Russ Allbery                                            (Closes: #364985).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"typo in debian-policy\", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques",
            "                                                            (Closes: #365323)."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            136318,
            329762,
            360518,
            364982,
            364983,
            364985,
            365058,
            365323,
            365356,
            365510
         ],
         "epoch" : 1146673062,
         "timestamp" : "2006-05-03T16:17:42Z",
         "version" : "3.7.1.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Bug fix: \"[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin\", thanks to",
            "    Brian White.                                             (Closes: #32263).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem",
            "    Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3\", thanks to Tobias Burnus",
            "                                          (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in",
            "    debian/control\", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,",
            "    except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which",
            "    may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space",
            "    is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must",
            "    allow for a multi-line uploaders field.                (Closes: #148194).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with",
            "    language extentions\", thanks to Joey Hess.             (Closes: #190753).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"init script stop example should use --oknodo\", thanks to",
            "    Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely.              (Closes: #346598).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different",
            "    gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck",
            "    interpreter)\", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something",
            "    to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common",
            "    licenses.                                               (Closes: #355263).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions\", thanks",
            "    to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing",
            "    legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone",
            "    anyway.  The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to",
            "    have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was",
            "    uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which",
            "    it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the",
            "    current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.",
            "                                                           (Closes: #357613).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if",
            "    available, mandatory\", thanks to Lars Wirzenius.        (Closes: #361137).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"no longer current regarding X font paths\", thanks to Joey",
            "    Hess                                                    (Closes: #362247).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or",
            "    mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove\",",
            "    thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular",
            "    dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular",
            "    dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the",
            "    dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at",
            "    some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their",
            "    dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending",
            "    on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen",
            "    to be on.                                                (Closes: #362975).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must",
            "    provide/\", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.",
            "                                                             (Closes: #341232).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:",
            "    redundant info about exit status\", thanks to Daniel Bonniot",
            "                                                             (Closes: #349010).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of",
            "    upgrading-checklist.txt.gz\", thanks to Matt Kraai         (Closes: #349775).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default\",",
            "    thanks to Guillem Jover                                   (Closes: #359817).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/",
            "    dpkg-statoverride\", thanks to Eduard Bloch                (Closes: #199849).",
            "  * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to",
            "     Bluefuture                                               (Closes: #342611).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as",
            "    relevenat\", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the",
            "    http servers out there.                                   (Closes: #117916)."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            32263,
            117916,
            148194,
            190753,
            199849,
            212434,
            230217,
            341232,
            342611,
            344158,
            346598,
            349010,
            349775,
            355263,
            357613,
            359817,
            361137,
            362247,
            362975
         ],
         "epoch" : 1146027376,
         "timestamp" : "2006-04-26T04:56:16Z",
         "version" : "3.7.0.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  [ Manoj ]",
            "  * Bug fix: \"policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel\", thanks to Joey",
            "    Hess. Removed the section from policy.                   (Closes: #344310).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon\",",
            "    thanks to Steve Greenland                                (Closes: #257726).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation\",",
            "    thanks to Bob Proulx                                     (Closes: #224770).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =\", thanks to",
            "    Bill Allombert                                           (Closes: #341992).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in",
            "    summary (6.4)\", thanks to Ferenc Wagner                  (Closes: #338493).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)\", thanks to Martin",
            "    Michlmayr                                                (Closes: #337539).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy\", thanks to Tibor Csögör",
            "                                                             (Closes: #334913).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright",
            "    Notice\", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger                      (Closes: #334819).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing &quot;Error",
            "    unwind:&quot; for &quot;new-postrm abort-upgrade&quot;\", thanks to",
            "    Henning Makholm                                          (Closes: #321792).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers\", thanks",
            "    to Henning Makholm                                       (Closes: #321790).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: &quot;ends .sh&quot;,",
            "    &quot;rather that&quot;\", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst      (Closes: #343933).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in",
            "    section 8.1.1\", thanks to Ben Finney                      (Closes: #318214).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be",
            "    ${shlibs:Depends}\", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst             (Closes: #318147).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt\",",
            "    thanks to Gabor Gombas                                    (Closes: #340189).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1\", thanks to Marc 'HE'",
            "    Brockschmidt                                              (Closes: #326633).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant",
            "    non-US repository sections\", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine",
            "                                                              (Closes: #315470)."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            224770,
            257726,
            315470,
            318147,
            318214,
            321790,
            321792,
            326633,
            334819,
            334913,
            337539,
            338493,
            340189,
            341992,
            343933,
            344310
         ],
         "epoch" : 1135522072,
         "timestamp" : "2005-12-25T14:47:52Z",
         "version" : "3.6.2.2"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz\", thanks",
            "    to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /.               (Closes: #314569).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"x-session-manager already in use, so please add to",
            "    virtual-package-names-list.txt\", thanks to Christopher Martin",
            "                                                             (Closes: #313626).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations\", thanks",
            "    to Jorgen Schaefer                                       (Closes: #310113).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to",
            "    virtual-package-names-list.txt\", thanks to Jon Dowland  (Closes:  #294633)."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            294633,
            310113,
            313626,
            314569
         ],
         "epoch" : 1119073694,
         "timestamp" : "2005-06-18T05:48:14Z",
         "version" : "3.6.2.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  Manoj:",
            "  * Bug fix: \"policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register",
            "    docs\", thanks to Joey Hess                             (Closes: #222553).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy\", thanks to",
            "    Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was",
            "    modified during inclusion.                              (Closes: #203145).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4\",",
            "    thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went",
            "    over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her",
            "    constructs before the gender police jump all over me.   (Closes: #273122).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"XSI:ism in prerm and postinst\", thanks to David Weinehall",
            "                                                            (Closes: #260092).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.\", thanks to",
            "    Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that",
            "    section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7  (Closes: #276953).",
            "  *",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source",
            "    archive, and should clean them from the tree\", thanks to Branden",
            "    Robinson                                                 (Closes: #284967).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script",
            "    calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete\", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz",
            "    and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into",
            "    problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.",
            "                                                             (Closes: #286549).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"9.3.3.2 &quot;command -v&quot; example needs tweaking\",",
            "    thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans",
            "    suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an",
            "    essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.",
            "                                                             (Closes: #291026).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting",
            "    history\", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a",
            "    directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an",
            "    informative footnote.                                    (Closes: #290270).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client\", thanks",
            "    to Eric Wong                                             (Closes: #270020).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: \"libexec\", or use of \"lib\" for",
            "    binaries in lib* packages\", thanks to Junichi Uekawa",
            "                                                              (Closes: #146023).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem\", thanks to Bartosz",
            "    Fenski aka fEnIo                                          (Closes: #239359).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential\",",
            "    thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section.             (Closes: #216104).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Please remove virtual package",
            "    aspell-dictionary\", thanks to Brian Nelson                (Closes: #295939).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible",
            "    images\", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen                         (Closes: #89867).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*",
            "    files\", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away",
            "    when we rebuild.                                          (Closes: #286553).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"please make names of alternate versions links\", thanks to",
            "    Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's",
            "    as well as the hyperlinks.                                 (Closes: #308886).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual\", thanks to",
            "    Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a",
            "    spell check run.                                           (Closes: #309162)."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            89867,
            146023,
            203145,
            216104,
            222553,
            239359,
            260092,
            270020,
            273122,
            276953,
            284967,
            286549,
            286553,
            290270,
            291026,
            295939,
            308886,
            309162
         ],
         "epoch" : 1118971637,
         "timestamp" : "2005-06-17T01:27:17Z",
         "version" : "3.6.2.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  Manoj:",
            "  * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg",
            "    in 6.6 to a footnote.                                  closes: Bug#209855",
            "  * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy.          closes: Bug#212153",
            "  * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections            closes: Bug#215524",
            "  * Fix spelling of sysv-rc                                closes: Bug#215558",
            "  * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation",
            "    incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies",
            "    caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not",
            "    included in this variable and must be explicitly included.",
            "                                                           closes: Bug#202054",
            "  * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of  the",
            "    version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows",
            "    developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their",
            "    packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in",
            "    this section.                                          closes: Bug#248618",
            "  * Bug fix: \"Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section",
            "    3.6\", thanks to Carlos O'Donell                        (Closes: #248786).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section",
            "    3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.\", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and",
            "    Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com>            (Closes: #248788, 247761).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"missing commas in subsections list\", thanks to Filippo",
            "    Giunchedi                                             (Closes: #236614).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL\", thanks to Manoj",
            "    Srivastava                                           (Closes: #244969).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)\", thanks to",
            "    Kevin Price                                          (Closes: #247143).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Small wording change\", thanks to Mike Paul",
            "                                                          (Closes: #252392).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered",
            "    Harmful\", thanks to Steven Augart                     (Closes: #253324).",
            "  * Bug fix: \"New virtual package: cron-daemon\", thanks to Adam Byrtek",
            "                                                          (Closes: #252086).",
            "  Josip:",
            "  * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence,            closes: #218530.",
            "  * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a",
            "    footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,",
            "                                                           closes: #50565.",
            "  * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes",
            "    to indicate recommended actions,                       closes: #51832.",
            "  * Updated PGP references,                                closes: #68827.",
            "  * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory",
            "    according to my skimming of dpkg-source,               closes: #70742.",
            "  * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,",
            "                                                           closes: #75508.",
            "  * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within",
            "    source tarballs,                                       closes: #79210.",
            "  Andi:",
            "  * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS.                         Closes: #241683",
            "  * fix link to WM specification.                          Closes: #235484",
            "  * manpage -> man page.                          Closes: #232364, #238958",
            "  * language adjustment.                                   Closes: #227762",
            "  * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.",
            "                                                  Closes: #185943, #237049"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            50565,
            51832,
            68827,
            70742,
            75508,
            79210,
            185943,
            202054,
            209855,
            212153,
            215524,
            215558,
            218530,
            227762,
            232364,
            235484,
            236614,
            237049,
            238958,
            241683,
            244969,
            247143,
            247761,
            248618,
            248786,
            248788,
            252086,
            252392,
            253324
         ],
         "epoch" : 1088197658,
         "timestamp" : "2004-06-25T21:07:38Z",
         "version" : "3.6.1.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  Josip:",
            "  * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,",
            "    closes: #193748.",
            "  Manoj:",
            "  * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian",
            "    hosted server.                                         closes: Bug#187297",
            "  * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list  closes: Bug#203728",
            "  * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses",
            "    --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not",
            "    running.                                               closes: Bug#187250",
            "  * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of",
            "    the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy.     closes: Bug#200440",
            "  * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while",
            "    removing the package.                                  closes: Bug#188030",
            "  * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the",
            "    user                                                   closes: Bug#176506"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            176506,
            187250,
            187297,
            188030,
            193748,
            200440,
            203728
         ],
         "epoch" : 1061296090,
         "timestamp" : "2003-08-19T12:28:10Z",
         "version" : "3.6.1.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  Josip:",
            "  * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.",
            "    + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy",
            "      sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.",
            "      In particular, the appendices that included the list of control",
            "      fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)",
            "      and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files",
            "      is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or",
            "      optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the",
            "      deb-building toolchain.",
            "    + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the",
            "      chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,",
            "      Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered",
            "      properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.",
            "    + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed",
            "      with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that",
            "      everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.",
            "      Some things remained split up between different chapters when they",
            "      talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,",
            "      and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new",
            "      sections about changelog files.",
            "  Manoj:",
            "  * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy               closes: Bug#194974",
            "  * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy                 closes: Bug#194972",
            "  * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the",
            "    wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown",
            "    number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist",
            "    bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.",
            "                                                           closes: Bug#174982",
            "  * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the",
            "    resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building",
            "    machine.  This answers some of the issues mentioned in  Bug#175064",
            "  * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent",
            "    mis-linked libraries                                   closes: Bug#191369",
            "  * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied",
            "    during clean target.                       closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809",
            "  * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true",
            "    behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one",
            "    way relationship.                                      closes: Bug#183195",
            "  * Could no longer find the misspelling \"seciton\", thus this must have",
            "    been fixed in a previous change in the manual.         closes: Bug#193903",
            "  * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a",
            "    consistent spelling across the manuals.                closes: Bug#189516",
            "  * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy.                closes: Bug#187615",
            "  * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other",
            "    changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues.     closes: Bug#169744",
            "  * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist",
            "    for the restructuring"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            169744,
            174982,
            178809,
            183195,
            187615,
            189306,
            189516,
            191369,
            191411,
            193903,
            194972,
            194974
         ],
         "epoch" : 1057766495,
         "timestamp" : "2003-07-09T16:01:35Z",
         "version" : "3.6.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  Josip:",
            "  * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,",
            "    closes: #182792.",
            "  * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid",
            "    confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.",
            "  * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.",
            "  * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.",
            "  * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.",
            "  * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.",
            "  Manoj:",
            "  * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an",
            "    extention to an informative footnote.                    closes: Bug#165063",
            "  * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with \"The",
            "    Window Manager Specification Project\".                   closes: Bug#167004",
            "  * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it",
            "    changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue",
            "    since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).",
            "                                                             closes: Bug#184518",
            "  * Inserted the word only in the package name section.      closes: Bug#184368",
            "  * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a",
            "    footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what \"by hand\"",
            "    means in a computer context.                             closes: Bug#184507"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            165063,
            167004,
            182792,
            184368,
            184507,
            184518,
            185985,
            187418,
            187420,
            187422,
            187567,
            189274,
            189654
         ],
         "epoch" : 1052586830,
         "timestamp" : "2003-05-10T17:13:50Z",
         "version" : "3.5.10.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  Josip:",
            "  * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from",
            "    the old Packaging manual,                                   closes: #172022",
            "  * Fixed a stale reference to the \"base system maintainer\" to",
            "    base-passwd maintainer,                                     closes: #174927",
            "  * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in",
            "    the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,",
            "                                                                closes: #174048",
            "  * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from",
            "    Richard Braakman,       closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209",
            "  * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully",
            "    fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)",
            "                                                                closes: #103459",
            "  * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci,       closes: #178455",
            "  * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a \"may\"",
            "    but a \"should\", added proper linking among various sections dealing with",
            "    the dependencies so that there is no confusion,              closes: #87510",
            "    If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the",
            "    requirement should be a \"must\" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC \"MUST\"),",
            "    please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift",
            "    through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with",
            "    explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with",
            "    offtopic stuff, too.",
            "  * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init",
            "    script should start it,                                      closes: #60979",
            "  * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of",
            "    \"should\",                                                   closes: #170019",
            "  * Rearranged the shared library information properly,         closes: #109166",
            "    This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries",
            "    in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous),                  closes: #93975",
            "  * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages",
            "    that are meant to provide examples,                          closes: #69864",
            "  * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff",
            "    imported from old packaging manual,                         closes: #181923",
            "  * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,",
            "                                                                closes: #183544"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            60979,
            69864,
            87510,
            93975,
            103459,
            109166,
            170019,
            172022,
            174048,
            174927,
            177205,
            177206,
            177207,
            177208,
            177209,
            178455,
            181923,
            183544
         ],
         "epoch" : 1047062116,
         "timestamp" : "2003-03-07T18:35:16Z",
         "version" : "3.5.9.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  Manoj",
            "  * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the",
            "    postsint.                                                closes: Bug#120585",
            "  * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be",
            "    obsolete base section (I assume it is)                    closes: Bug#53582",
            "  * Rearranged the virtual packages list.                     closes: Bug#72980",
            "  * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using",
            "    debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require",
            "    debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it",
            "    is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.",
            "                                                             closes: Bug#164035",
            "  * No longer depend on fileutils.                           closes: Bug#167425",
            "  * Added the Apps/Science menu section                      closes: Bug#162812",
            "  * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it",
            "    conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an",
            "    effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each",
            "    other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in",
            "    the new content, except where I made guesses.            closes: Bug#160776",
            "  * Clarify section 13.3.                                    closes: Bug#160248",
            "  * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement.            closes: Bug#39830",
            "  Josip",
            "  * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright",
            "    file,                                                     closes: Bug#65764"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            39830,
            53582,
            65764,
            72980,
            120585,
            160248,
            160776,
            162812,
            164035,
            167425
         ],
         "epoch" : 1037342214,
         "timestamp" : "2002-11-15T06:36:54Z",
         "version" : "3.5.8.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839",
            "  * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority",
            "    may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709",
            "  * Fix the groff and col -b interaction                     closes: Bug#164755",
            "  * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist             closes: Bug#160914",
            "  * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace",
            "  * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for",
            "    symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a",
            "    previous section of policy 13.6)                         closes: Bug#111137",
            "  * Removed a spurious + from text.                          closes: Bug#160908",
            "  * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for",
            "    details.                                                 closes: Bug#133030",
            "  * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS.          closes: Bug#122928",
            "  * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial",
            "    parts of Bug#161455."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            111137,
            122928,
            129375,
            133030,
            149709,
            160839,
            160908,
            160914,
            164755
         ],
         "epoch" : 1035655969,
         "timestamp" : "2002-10-26T18:12:49Z",
         "version" : "3.5.7.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Fixed some broken hrefs in links",
            "  * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)",
            "  * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing",
            "    the new error reported to bug #137521                    closes: Bug#137521",
            "  * Fixed a couple of typos                                  closes: Bug#139832",
            "  * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in",
            "    the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is",
            "    since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does",
            "    not.                                                     closes: Bug#139820",
            "  * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely",
            "    requiring a notification.                                closes: Bug#106280",
            "  * Added a build dependson docbook utils.                   closes: Bug#154660",
            "  * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this",
            "    should display better with lynx.                         closes: Bug#153704",
            "  * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment.          closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411",
            "  * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a",
            "    special field in the control file (and these should be added only",
            "    after discussion on the mailing lists)                    closes: Bug#97755",
            "  * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.",
            "                                                             closes: Bug#109672",
            "  * Fix the doc base file for policy process     closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554",
            "                                                             closes: Bug#146756",
            "  * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this.      closes: Bug#139969",
            "  * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the",
            "    maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/           closes: Bug#144297",
            "  * Add a standards version                                  closes: Bug#145067",
            "  * Added virtual package debconf-2.0                        closes: Bug#151328",
            "  * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default",
            "    window manager selection mechanism                       closes: Bug#155680",
            "  * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been",
            "    disambiguated.                                           closes: Bug#114949",
            "  * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new",
            "    build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist      closes: Bug#116134",
            "  * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate",
            "    the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,",
            "    since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway.    closes: Bug#131441",
            "  * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual",
            "    packages with the same name.                             closes: Bug#134977",
            "  * Fixed typo 'be be'                                       closes: Bug#138681",
            "  * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion         closes: Bug#140697",
            "  * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs:                               closes: Bug#141903",
            "  * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.",
            "                                                             closes: Bug#143770",
            "  * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy           closes: Bug#152965",
            "  * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name",
            "    and soversion if the library name ends in a number.      closes: Bug#100472",
            "  * Permit some libraries to only install static libs.       closes: Bug#100346",
            "  * Remove the debug option, add noopt           closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525",
            "  * provide dhcp-client virtual package.                     closes: Bug#154142",
            "  * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.",
            "                                                             closes: Bug#150456",
            "  * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml.    closes: Bug#146703",
            "  * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and",
            "    this                                         closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546",
            "  * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary                  closes: Bug#139067",
            "  * Added virtual package radius-server                      closes: Bug#118608",
            "  * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue.           closes: Bug#112828",
            "  * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions.            closes: Bug#111025",
            "  * Not a policy issue.                                      closes: Bug#106826",
            "  * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause.          closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            47298,
            69311,
            81852,
            97755,
            100346,
            100472,
            106280,
            106826,
            109672,
            111025,
            112828,
            113525,
            114949,
            116134,
            118608,
            131441,
            134977,
            137521,
            138681,
            139067,
            139820,
            139832,
            139969,
            140697,
            141307,
            141903,
            143770,
            144297,
            144411,
            145067,
            146703,
            146756,
            147554,
            150456,
            151328,
            152965,
            153704,
            154142,
            154660,
            155680,
            156546,
            157131
         ],
         "epoch" : 1030778282,
         "timestamp" : "2002-08-31T07:18:02Z",
         "version" : "3.5.7.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the",
            "    FHS mailing list.                                        closes: Bug#137172",
            "  * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to",
            "    exist, and does contain the menu policy.     closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977",
            "  * Added java related virtual packages                      closes: Bug#110713",
            "  * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d",
            "    scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_",
            "    configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,",
            "    either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles",
            "    or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This",
            "    does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any",
            "    conformant packages.                                     closes: Bug#132621",
            "  * Fixed error in doc-base file                             closes: Bug#137521",
            "  * fixed typo in virtual packages list                      closes: Bug#110446",
            "  * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist.                       closes: Bug#110705",
            "  * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy                  closes: Bug#122931",
            "  * Fixed grammar errors in the policy                       closes: Bug#126131",
            "  * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer",
            "    wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If",
            "    there is interest, new bugs can be filed.      closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412",
            "  * Added the virtual package dict-client                    closes: Bug#122996",
            "  * Added the virtual package foomatic-data                  closes: Bug#123570",
            "  * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer               closes: Bug#131781"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            51411,
            51412,
            110446,
            110705,
            110711,
            110713,
            121977,
            122931,
            122996,
            123570,
            126131,
            131781,
            132621,
            137172,
            137521
         ],
         "epoch" : 1016129813,
         "timestamp" : "2002-03-14T18:16:53Z",
         "version" : "3.5.6.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,",
            "    medium, high, emergency.",
            "  * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,",
            "    which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]",
            "  * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional",
            "                                                  closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849",
            "  * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition",
            "                                                             closes: Bug#102199",
            "",
            "  * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy   closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461",
            "  * Spelling correction                                      closes: Bug#105625",
            "  * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc",
            "                                                             closes: Bug#100631",
            "  * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for",
            "    debian/rules                                             closes: Bug#72335",
            "  * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an",
            "    informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and",
            "    its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes",
            "    the information provided.                                closes: Bug#105535",
            "  * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.",
            "                                                             closes: Bug#105538"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            53849,
            60461,
            72335,
            98291,
            100631,
            102199,
            102204,
            105535,
            105538,
            105625
         ],
         "epoch" : 996029002,
         "timestamp" : "2001-07-25T02:43:22Z",
         "version" : "3.5.6.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous",
            "    3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly",
            "    merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)",
            "  * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from",
            "    3.0.0 onwards",
            "  * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2",
            "  * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS",
            "  * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files",
            "  * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of",
            "    debian/rules to do this",
            "  * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until",
            "    patches are incorporated upstream",
            "  * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm",
            "  * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2                 closes: Bug#92744",
            "  * Made the \"where examples live\" entry in the upgrading-checklist",
            "    clearer (add \"for use by scripts\")",
            "  * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section      closes: Bug#89473",
            "  * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove \"only if\")",
            "                                                     closes: Bug#89674",
            "  * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows",
            "    system                                           closes: Bug#91249",
            "  * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy              closes: Bug#91252",
            "  * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy           closes: Bug#91259",
            "  * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS      closes: Bug#91260",
            "  * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif        closes: Bug#91261",
            "  * The X Font policy rewrite                        closes: Bug#91257",
            "  * The \"man\" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information",
            "    to find alternative manpage names                closes: Bug#94995",
            "  * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version       closes: Bug#97072",
            "  * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability",
            "  * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last)           closes: Bug#66023",
            "  * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and",
            "    mention this in control file                     closes: Bug#95906",
            "  * Clarification in Perl policy                     closes: Bug#98712"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            66023,
            89473,
            89674,
            91249,
            91252,
            91257,
            91259,
            91260,
            91261,
            92744,
            94995,
            95906,
            97072,
            98712
         ],
         "epoch" : 991388272,
         "timestamp" : "2001-06-01T09:37:52Z",
         "version" : "3.5.5.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail  closes: Bug#42052",
            "  * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy       closes: Bug#83977",
            "  * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the",
            "    grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly",
            "    Julian's fixes:",
            "  * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation",
            "  * Fixed the confusing self referential language.   closes: Bug#85503",
            "  * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.",
            "                                                     closes: Bug#86436",
            "  * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.",
            "                                                     closes: Bug#87233"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            42052,
            83977,
            85503,
            86436,
            87233
         ],
         "epoch" : 988482621,
         "timestamp" : "2001-04-28T18:30:21Z",
         "version" : "3.5.4.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual",
            "                                    closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705",
            "  * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual",
            "  * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source",
            "    package for the time being",
            "  * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!",
            "  * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)",
            "  * Corrected GPL name and location         closes: Bug#88788, #93047",
            "  * Correct bug severities                          closes: Bug#91276",
            "  * Correct typos etc. in policy-process",
            "  * Rename all .text files as .txt",
            "  * Fixed the \"to to\" typo in policy                 closes: Bug#87007",
            "  * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation  closes: Bug#88651",
            "  * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing        closes: Bug#87828",
            "    Build-Depends arch syntax",
            "  * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example  closes: Bug#87711",
            "    configuration files",
            "  * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to",
            "    the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later",
            "    version.",
            "  * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation",
            "    from policy maintenance duties.",
            "  * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien",
            "    Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com>        closes: Bug#84236"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            84236,
            86507,
            87007,
            87711,
            87828,
            88651,
            88788,
            91276,
            93047,
            93620,
            93705
         ],
         "epoch" : 987359779,
         "timestamp" : "2001-04-15T18:36:19Z",
         "version" : "3.5.3.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment             closes: Bug#83069"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            83069.0
         ],
         "epoch" : 982505509,
         "timestamp" : "2001-02-18T14:11:49Z",
         "version" : "3.5.2.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Removed deprecated virtual package names        closes: Bug#84641",
            "  * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)",
            "  * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request",
            "  * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry",
            "                            closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506",
            "                            closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514",
            "                            closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982",
            "                            closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001",
            "  * No longer include the old proposal document     closes: Bug#84079",
            "  * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up",
            "    minor version number for this",
            "  * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and",
            "    correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)",
            "  * Clarify error conditions for package installation",
            "                                       (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)",
            "  * Add the \"main\" section of each distribution (got left out by",
            "    accident!)                 (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)",
            "  * Clean version numbering string     (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)",
            "  * Install HTML version of FHS                     closes: Bug#83487",
            "  * Removed bashism from debian/rules"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            83487,
            84079,
            84631,
            84636,
            84641,
            85497,
            85501,
            85504,
            85505,
            85506,
            85508,
            85510,
            85511,
            85514,
            85982,
            85986,
            85993,
            86001
         ],
         "epoch" : 982239180,
         "timestamp" : "2001-02-15T12:13:00Z",
         "version" : "3.5.1.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and",
            "    peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am",
            "    updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and",
            "    magnitude of changes since 3.2.1",
            "  * More spelling corrections, thanks to \"Christian T. Steigies\"",
            "    <cts@nikocity.de>",
            "  * Added mention of  DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.",
            "                                                    closes: Bug#83924",
            "  * Fixed some typos.                               closes: Bug#83960",
            "  * Policy now mentions preinst scripts.            closes: Bug#80342",
            "  * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration",
            "    management system (debconf)                     closes: Bug#80347",
            "  * Yet more typo fixes                             closes: Bug#82743",
            "  * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package",
            "    xutils                                          closes: Bug#82966",
            "  * Fixed the date in the virtual package list      closes: Bug#83438",
            "  * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks",
            "    to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>        closes: Bug#83065",
            "  * Corrected reference to the mime policy.         closes: Bug#79891",
            "  * Corrected reference to the menu policy.         closes: Bug#75925",
            "  * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to",
            "    illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely",
            "    informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about",
            "    potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.",
            "                                                    closes: Bug#80506"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            75925,
            79891,
            80342,
            80347,
            80506,
            82743,
            82966,
            83065,
            83438,
            83924,
            83960
         ],
         "epoch" : 980740756,
         "timestamp" : "2001-01-29T03:59:16Z",
         "version" : "3.5.0.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and",
            "    root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to",
            "    this version.",
            "  * Document the Enhances relationship",
            "  * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must",
            "    maintain a package.                            closes: Bug#51879",
            "  * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of",
            "    policy.                                        closes: Bug#53496",
            "  * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages",
            "    in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)",
            "                                                   closes: Bug#53700",
            "  * Clarified update-rc.d stuff                    closes: Bug#55048",
            "",
            "  * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most",
            "    of this is not relevant to policy anyway.      closes: Bug#55730",
            "  * makedev--> MAKEDEV                             closes: Bug#57154",
            "  * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/",
            "                                                   closes: Bug#59403",
            "  * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section",
            "    that deals with copyright files.               closes: Bug#65765",
            "  * init script configuration variables            closes: Bug#66912",
            "  * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked",
            "    as conflicting                                 closes: Bug#76028"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            51879,
            53496,
            53700,
            55048,
            55730,
            57154,
            59403,
            65765,
            66912,
            76028
         ],
         "epoch" : 979803838,
         "timestamp" : "2001-01-18T07:43:58Z",
         "version" : "3.2.1.2"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)",
            "  * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal",
            "    change in version number is because I suspect that this version is",
            "    going to be buggy.",
            "                                                    closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949",
            "  * Fixed typo in menu-policy.                      closes: Bug#70442",
            "  * Fixed typo in policy manual                     closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643",
            "  * Removed extraneous > from policy                closes: Bug#77645",
            "  * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist          closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822",
            "  * Fixed spelling of utility                       closes: Bug#82458",
            "  * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into",
            "    non-US/{main,contrib}                          closes: Bug#69229",
            "  * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list",
            "                                                   closes: Bug#77404",
            "  * Fixed outdated references to the FHS.          closes: Bug#77650"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            62943,
            69229,
            70442,
            70634,
            70643,
            72949,
            77404,
            77645,
            77650,
            78809,
            78822,
            82458
         ],
         "epoch" : 979710811,
         "timestamp" : "2001-01-17T05:53:31Z",
         "version" : "3.2.1.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the \"to build with X support or",
            "    not\" policy.                                        closes: Bug#53759",
            "  * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy  This is only a",
            "    clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of",
            "    policy.                                             closes: Bug#64437",
            "  * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles.   closes: Bug#61308",
            "  * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\\.mail/root\\.mail/     closes: Bug#62668",
            "  * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout  closes: Bug#62946",
            "  * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/  closes: Bug#62947",
            "  * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/            closes: Bug#62948",
            "  * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/                               closes: Bug#64516",
            "  * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package            closes: Bug#64004",
            "  * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package            closes: Bug#64006",
            "  * new virtual package time-daemon                     closes: Bug#69031",
            "  * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml                   closes: Bug#69424",
            "  * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml        closes: Bug#69426",
            "  * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is",
            "    incorrect.                                          closes: Bug#69487",
            "  * [PATCH] more corrections                            closes: Bug#69670",
            "  * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition      closes: Bug#46522",
            "  * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n         closes: Bug#48247",
            "  * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes",
            "                                                        closes: Bug#50832",
            "  * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and",
            "    telnet-client                                       closes: Bug#58759"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            46522,
            48247,
            50832,
            53759,
            58759,
            61308,
            62668,
            62946,
            62947,
            62948,
            64004,
            64006,
            64437,
            64516,
            69031,
            69424,
            69426,
            69487,
            69670
         ],
         "epoch" : 967100790,
         "timestamp" : "2000-08-24T07:06:30Z",
         "version" : "3.2.1.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:",
            "  * We have had doc-base support for a while now.       closes: Bug#15709",
            "  * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg",
            "    behaviour.                                          closes: Bug#17369",
            "  * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles       closes: Bug#22935",
            "  * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.",
            "    fixed usage for dpkg-divert                         closes: Bug#29522",
            "  * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement",
            "    on dependancies and priorities                      closes: Bug#39398",
            "  * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934",
            "  * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal       closes: Bug#43787",
            "  * Fixed missing </chapt> tag.                         closes: Bug#51091",
            "  * Correct typo in section 2.3.5                       closes: Bug#52225",
            "  * Documented that the library before the symlink hack",
            "    (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)",
            "    is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg.    closes: Bug#53405",
            "  * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of \"xserver\"",
            "    alternative                                         closes: Bug#53755",
            "  * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package",
            "    list                                                closes: Bug#53756",
            "  * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for \"x-terminal-emulator\"",
            "     virtual package and alternative                    closes: Bug#53757",
            "  * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for \"x-window-manager\"",
            "     virtual package and alternative                    closes: Bug#53758",
            "  * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults",
            "    policy                                              closes: Bug#53760",
            "  * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif",
            "    policy                                              closes: Bug#53761",
            "  * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages",
            "    that use X                                          closes: Bug#53762",
            "  * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages    closes: Bug#53763",
            "  * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since",
            "    that is where they belong, really.                  closes: Bug#54777",
            "  * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals.              closes: Bug#56407",
            "  * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where",
            "    was it defined before anyway?)                      closes: Bug#56692",
            "  * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:",
            "  * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of",
            "    dpkg-gencontrol.                                    closes: Bug#58771",
            "  * Other changes:",
            "  * Added policy-process to document current procedures.",
            "  * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail",
            "    to install with older fileutils.",
            "  * Installed FHS version 2.1",
            "  * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa",
            "  * Added FHS details to copyright file",
            "  * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules",
            "    file.",
            "  * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming",
            "    dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            15709,
            17369,
            22935,
            29522,
            39398,
            40934,
            43787,
            51091,
            52225,
            53405,
            53755,
            53756,
            53757,
            53758,
            53760,
            53761,
            53762,
            53763,
            54777,
            56407,
            56692,
            58771
         ],
         "epoch" : 964996982,
         "timestamp" : "2000-07-30T22:43:02Z",
         "version" : "3.2.0.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does",
            "    not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this."
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 951798425,
         "timestamp" : "2000-02-29T04:27:05Z",
         "version" : "3.1.1.3"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)",
            "  * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            51091,
            52225
         ],
         "epoch" : 945722397,
         "timestamp" : "1999-12-20T20:39:57Z",
         "version" : "3.1.1.2"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.",
            "  * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:",
            "    #50502)",
            "  * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            50502,
            50857
         ],
         "epoch" : 943298611,
         "timestamp" : "1999-11-22T19:23:31Z",
         "version" : "3.1.1.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends",
            "    description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            49901.0
         ],
         "epoch" : 942764628,
         "timestamp" : "1999-11-16T15:03:48Z",
         "version" : "3.1.1.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:",
            "    #45561, #42447, #48570)",
            "  * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)",
            "  * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)",
            "  * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d",
            "    directoried (closes: #41547)",
            "  * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)",
            "  * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new",
            "    suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)",
            "  * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)",
            "  * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)",
            "  * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)",
            "  * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml",
            "  * Clarification of \"extra\" priority (closes: #33076)",
            "  * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib",
            "    package criteria (closes: #45318)",
            "  * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:",
            "    #41829)",
            "  * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).",
            "  * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)",
            "  * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)",
            "  * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)",
            "  * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)",
            "  * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)",
            "  * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:",
            "    #40766, #40767)",
            "  * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)",
            "  * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)",
            "  * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)",
            "  * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates",
            "    (closes: #17621)",
            "  * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:",
            "    #19179)",
            "  * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:",
            "    #41095)",
            "  * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity",
            "  * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            8221,
            17621,
            19179,
            24695,
            32448,
            32449,
            33076,
            40766,
            40767,
            41095,
            41121,
            41232,
            41547,
            41829,
            42358,
            42447,
            42849,
            43651,
            44620,
            44643,
            44922,
            45307,
            45318,
            45561,
            46516,
            48570
         ],
         "epoch" : 941759437,
         "timestamp" : "1999-11-04T23:50:37Z",
         "version" : "3.1.0.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180",
            "  * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            40180.0
         ],
         "epoch" : 934784469,
         "timestamp" : "1999-08-16T06:21:09Z",
         "version" : "3.0.1.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * A few typos and omissions corrected",
            "  * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the",
            "    list.",
            "  * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408",
            "  * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the",
            "    packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the",
            "    .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this",
            "    is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)",
            "  * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a",
            "    while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159",
            "  * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533",
            "  * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915",
            "  * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036",
            "  * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,",
            "    this closes: Bug#38612",
            "  * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed",
            "    before. closes: Bug#40864"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            25533,
            26159,
            26915,
            30036,
            38612,
            39408,
            40864
         ],
         "epoch" : 932063711,
         "timestamp" : "1999-07-15T18:35:11Z",
         "version" : "3.0.1.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be",
            "    officially uploaded.",
            "  * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate",
            "    .deb packages)",
            "  * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.",
            "  * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version",
            "    Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).",
            "    closes: Bug#21969",
            "  * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to",
            "    /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a",
            "    footnote. closes: Bug#28747",
            "  * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages",
            "    closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338",
            "  * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.",
            "    closes: Bug# 37342",
            "  * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X",
            "    Window System) closes: Bug#38212",
            "  * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)",
            "    closes: Bug#37713",
            "  * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal",
            "    closes: Bug#37389",
            "  * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND",
            "    Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first",
            "    scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345",
            "  * Updated the upgrading checklist.",
            "  * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            21969,
            28747,
            37257,
            37338,
            37342,
            37345,
            37389,
            37713,
            38212
         ],
         "epoch" : 930800955,
         "timestamp" : "1999-07-01T03:49:15Z",
         "version" : "3.0.0.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095",
            "  * Corrected canonical source for \"Csh Programming Considered Harmful\"",
            "    closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499",
            "  * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543",
            "  * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the",
            "    document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in",
            "    there). closes: Bug#34233",
            "  * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033",
            "  * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302",
            "  * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to",
            "    /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875",
            "  * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148"
         ],
         "closes" : [
            21875,
            30148,
            30302,
            31033,
            34233,
            34988,
            35095,
            36286
         ],
         "epoch" : 925229429,
         "timestamp" : "1999-04-27T16:10:29Z",
         "version" : "2.5.1.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections",
            "    to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 (\"Files\") should",
            "    become Section 4.  The Sections that are currently Section 4 and",
            "    Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6",
            "    accordingly.",
            "",
            "    What is now Section 5.5 (\"Log files\") should be moved to be a",
            "    subsection of the new Section 4 (\"Files\"), becoming section 4.8,",
            "    placing it after \"Configuration files\", moving the would-be Section",
            "    4.8 (\"Permissions and owners\") to Section 4.9.  All subsections of the",
            "    current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill",
            "    in the number gap.",
            "",
            "    This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version",
            "    number. closes: BUG#25911",
            "",
            "  * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and",
            "    compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is",
            "    HTML formatted, it should be accessible as",
            "    /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a",
            "    symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian",
            "    conventions. closes: BUG#21185",
            "",
            "  * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML",
            "    documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the",
            "    main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).",
            "    closes: BUG#7890",
            "",
            "  * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy",
            "    to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than",
            "    /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461",
            "",
            "  * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the",
            "    architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,",
            "    where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now",
            "    we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385",
            "",
            "  * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to",
            "    the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being",
            "    managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.",
            "",
            "  * Make the package optional, not extra.",
            "",
            "  * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted",
            "    and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so",
            "    converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since",
            "    I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the",
            "    process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my",
            "    predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a \"create",
            "    some space here\" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a",
            "    paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what",
            "    it is, really).",
            "",
            "  * Re did the control files, making them more robust",
            "",
            "  * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain",
            "    by putting in a layer of abstractions."
         ],
         "closes" : [
            7890,
            21185,
            25385,
            25911,
            26461
         ],
         "epoch" : 909695812,
         "timestamp" : "1998-10-29T21:16:52Z",
         "version" : "2.5.0.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>"
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 904959695,
         "timestamp" : "1998-09-05T01:41:35Z",
         "version" : "2.4.1.4"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)",
            "  * policy.sgml:    some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)",
            "  * policy.sgml:    s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)",
            "  * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not",
            "    sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)",
            "  * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate",
            "  * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the",
            "    current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision",
            "    or date anywhere",
            "  * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp",
            "  * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)"
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 902825657,
         "timestamp" : "1998-08-11T08:54:17Z",
         "version" : "2.4.1.3"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * non-maintainer release",
            "  * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as",
            "    important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very",
            "    annoying.)",
            "  * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,",
            "    but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then",
            "  * no content changes",
            "  * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner"
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 897981322,
         "timestamp" : "1998-06-16T07:15:22Z",
         "version" : "2.4.1.2"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Orphaned package"
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 895175690,
         "timestamp" : "1998-05-14T19:54:50Z",
         "version" : "2.4.1.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:",
            "",
            "    - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs",
            "          and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:",
            "      + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)",
            "",
            "    - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:",
            "      + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)",
            "",
            "    - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:",
            "      + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,",
            "        symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute",
            "        (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)",
            "",
            "    - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:",
            "      + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)",
            "      + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged",
            "        as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)",
            "      + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload",
            "        and restart options and to comply with the console message",
            "        standard (fixes:bug#19216)",
            "",
            "    - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:",
            "      + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to",
            "        the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common",
            "        package.",
            "",
            "    - Updated section 4.9 Games:",
            "      + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6",
            "        (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)",
            "",
            "    - Removed one example reference to the current standards version",
            "    - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that",
            "      a recompiled manual uses the same release date",
            "",
            "  * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:",
            "    - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'",
            "",
            "  * New version numbering scheme:",
            "",
            "    - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy",
            "      manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and",
            "      the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering",
            "      scheme.",
            "",
            "    - The first three digits of the version number specify the",
            "      `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy",
            "      change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may",
            "      differ between the manuals.",
            "",
            "      If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy",
            "      have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only",
            "      have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the",
            "      `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.",
            "",
            "  * Packaging changes:",
            "",
            "    - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only",
            "      package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.",
            "",
            "    - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)"
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 892541289,
         "timestamp" : "1998-04-14T08:08:09Z",
         "version" : "2.4.1.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * 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'",
            "",
            "  * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this",
            "    changelog file",
            "",
            "  * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the",
            "    Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz",
            "",
            "  * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the",
            "    online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)",
            "",
            "  * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)"
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 886193905,
         "timestamp" : "1998-01-30T20:58:25Z",
         "version" : "2.4.0.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:",
            "    - X library package is now called xlib6g",
            "  * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:",
            "    - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,",
            "      lambdamoo-server",
            "  * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual",
            "    (fixes #13790)",
            "  * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered",
            "    the draft official policy (which is not the case)",
            "  * Don't use debstd anymore"
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 877467832,
         "timestamp" : "1997-10-21T21:03:52Z",
         "version" : "2.3.0.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:",
            "    - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new",
            "      contrib/non-free policy",
            "    - call \"contrib\" and \"non-free\" a `section' (not `distribution')",
            "    - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files",
            "    - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of",
            "      maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)",
            "    - new section about `Daemons'",
            "    - updated section about `Configuration files'",
            "    - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile",
            "    - fixed typos and grammatical errors",
            "  * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:",
            "    - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'",
            "  * Paper about libc6 migration:",
            "    - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!",
            "  * SGML source code included in package",
            "  * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)"
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 873154471,
         "timestamp" : "1997-09-01T22:54:31Z",
         "version" : "2.3.0.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:",
            "    - completely reworked structure",
            "    - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim",
            "      releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual",
            "    - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual",
            "    - removed all those ugly footnotes",
            "    - new example for \"reload\" in section about console messages",
            "    - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)",
            "    - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual",
            "    - rewrote abstract and section introductions",
            "    - mention \"orphaned packages\"",
            "    - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the",
            "      distributions' policy",
            "    - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel",
            "    - rewrote sections about \"pre-depends\", \"essential\" and, \"base\" packages",
            "    - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US",
            "    - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)",
            "    - added section about arch spec strings",
            "    - rewrote section about \"Site specific programs\" (/usr/local)",
            "    - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs",
            "    - added section about \"menus\"",
            "    - removed section about \"web menus\" since this will be superseded with",
            "      the new documentation policy soon",
            "    - incorporated \"Debian Free Software Guidelines\" (fixes #9024)",
            "    - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes",
            "      #11008)",
            "    - added section about editors and pagers",
            "    - added note about Package priorities and dependencies",
            "    - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)",
            "    - added section about device files",
            "    - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)",
            "    - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)",
            "    - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,",
            "      etc.)",
            "  * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names",
            "    - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,",
            "      compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6",
            "    - Added new section about obsolete names",
            "  * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration",
            "  * Fixed package's description"
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 868793151,
         "timestamp" : "1997-07-13T11:25:51Z",
         "version" : "2.2.0.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)"
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 863621595,
         "timestamp" : "1997-05-14T14:53:15Z",
         "version" : "2.1.3.3"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)",
            "  * Added new virtual package \"wordlist\" to list (requested by Joey Hess)",
            "  * Changed wording in section about \"non-free\" packages as suggested",
            "    by Kai Henningsen (#7076)"
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 862855539,
         "timestamp" : "1997-05-05T18:05:39Z",
         "version" : "2.1.3.2"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)",
            "  * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)",
            "  * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it",
            "    \"byhand\".",
            "  * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy",
            "    and upload it \"byhand\" too."
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 862329734,
         "timestamp" : "1997-04-29T16:02:14Z",
         "version" : "2.1.3.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low",
            "",
            "  * Initial Release.",
            "  * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>",
            "  * Added section 2.4 about the \"non-us\" distribution.",
            "  * Added section 3.1.1 about the \"Package\" field in the control file.",
            "  * Added section 3.2.1 about \"Binaries\": two programs with different",
            "    functionality must not have the same name.",
            "  * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into \"Debian changelog and upstream",
            "    changelog\" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.",
            "  * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',",
            "    as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.",
            "  * Added section 3.13: \"Webstandard 3.0\" by Christoph Lameter.",
            "  * Added section 3.14: \"Standard for Console Messages\" by Christian Schwarz.",
            "  * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options",
            "    for libraries)",
            "  * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'",
            "    to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning",
            "    <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.",
            "  * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with",
            "    \"strip --strip-unneeded\", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.",
            "  * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now",
            "    \"/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz\". This fixes bug #6130.",
            "  * Section 6.2 renamed to \"Uploading your first Debian package\". This",
            "    fixes bug #6130."
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 858445736,
         "timestamp" : "1997-03-15T17:08:56Z",
         "version" : "2.1.3.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;",
            "",
            "  * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and",
            "  Programmer's manual",
            "  * Corrected the contact email addresses again.",
            "  * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)",
            "  * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load",
            "  a package into. (Guy Maor)",
            "  * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in",
            "  Programmer 6.1."
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 849677284,
         "timestamp" : "1996-12-04T05:28:04Z",
         "version" : "2.1.2.2"
      },
      {
         "author" : "David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;",
            "",
            "  * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,",
            "  Guy Maor and others",
            "  * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2",
            "  * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for",
            "  description of deb file format.",
            "  * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2",
            "  * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for",
            "  shared libraries.",
            "  * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts",
            "  (Bug #2481)",
            "  * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs",
            "  * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change"
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 849104236,
         "timestamp" : "1996-11-27T14:17:16Z",
         "version" : "2.1.2.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;",
            "",
            "  * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.",
            "  * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction",
            "  * Added section headings for copyright criteria",
            "  * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)",
            "  * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and",
            "    static libraries. (Bug #5299)",
            "  * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted",
            "    packages in section on Procedure",
            "  * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming",
            "    a package maintainer",
            "  * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.",
            "  * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,",
            "    frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.",
            "",
            "  * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.",
            "  * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.",
            "  * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with",
            "    the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)",
            "  * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information",
            "    on various shlib files",
            "  * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.",
            "  * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared",
            "    Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)"
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 848727699,
         "timestamp" : "1996-11-23T05:41:39Z",
         "version" : "2.1.2.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;",
            "",
            "  * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,",
            "    and can't easily be made to work reliably).",
            "  * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.",
            "",
            "  * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.",
            "  * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.",
            "  * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.",
            "  * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.",
            "  * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.",
            "",
            "  * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies."
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 842486441,
         "timestamp" : "1996-09-12T00:00:41Z",
         "version" : "2.1.1.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;",
            "",
            "  * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).",
            "",
            "  * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.",
            "  * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for",
            "    compatibility go in contrib.",
            "",
            "  * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion",
            "    instructions in policy manual.",
            "  * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a",
            "    package in contrib."
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 841596438,
         "timestamp" : "1996-09-01T16:47:18Z",
         "version" : "2.1.0.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;",
            "",
            "  * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.",
            "  * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).",
            "  * When to byte-compile Elisp files.",
            "  * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.",
            "",
            "  * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.",
            "  * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.",
            "  * Typo fixes."
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 841518442,
         "timestamp" : "1996-08-31T19:07:22Z",
         "version" : "2.0.1.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;",
            "",
            "  * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.",
            "  * More detail about changelog format names.",
            "",
            "  * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.",
            "  * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.",
            "  * Typos corrected.",
            "  * Released."
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 841066054,
         "timestamp" : "1996-08-26T13:27:34Z",
         "version" : "2.0.0.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;",
            "",
            "  * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another."
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 840908694,
         "timestamp" : "1996-08-24T17:44:54Z",
         "version" : "0.2.1.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;",
            "",
            "  * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.",
            "",
            "  * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.",
            "",
            "  * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.",
            "  * More verbosity about netiquette.",
            "  * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists."
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 840800889,
         "timestamp" : "1996-08-23T11:48:09Z",
         "version" : "0.2.1.0"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;",
            "",
            "  * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist."
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 840769536,
         "timestamp" : "1996-08-23T03:05:36Z",
         "version" : "0.2.0.1"
      },
      {
         "author" : "Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>",
         "changes" : [
            "",
            "debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;",
            "",
            "  * Draft releases."
         ],
         "closes" : [],
         "epoch" : 840636473,
         "timestamp" : "1996-08-21T14:07:53Z",
         "version" : "0.2.0.0"
      }
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