10.26. Version 3.8.3

Released August, 2009.

4.9

DEB_*_ARCH_CPU and DEB_*_ARCH_OS variables are now documented and recommended over GNU-style variables for that information.

5.6.8

Source package Architecture fields may contain all in combination with other architectures. Clarify when all and any may be used in different versions of the field.

5.6.14

The Debian archive software does not support uploading to multiple distributions with one *.changes file.

5.6.19

The Binary field may span multiple lines.

10.2

Shared library packages are no longer allowed to install libraries in a non-standard location and modify ld.so.conf. Packages should either be installed in a standard library directory or packages using them should be built with RPATH.

11.8.7

Installation directories for X programs have been clarified. Packages are no longer required to pre-depend on x11-common before installing into /usr/include/X11 and /usr/lib/X11.

12.1

Manual pages are no longer required to contain only characters representable in the legacy encoding for that language.

12.1

Localized man pages should either be kept up-to-date with the original version or warn that they’re not up-to-date, either with warning text or by showing missing or changed portions in the original language.

12.2

install-info is now handled via triggers so packages no longer need to invoke it in maintainer scripts. Info documents should now have directory sections and entries in the document. Packages containing info documents should add a dependency to support partial upgrades.

perl

The requirement for Perl modules to have a versioned Depend and Build-Depend on perl >= 5.6.0-16 has been removed.