10.34. Version 3.7.0

Released April, 2006.

11.5

Packages shipping web server CGI files are expected to install them in /usr/lib/cgi-lib/ directories. This location change perhaps should be documented in NEWS

11.5

Web server packages should include a standard scriptAlias of cgi-lib to /usr/lib/cgi-lib.

9.1.1

The version of FHS mandated by policy has been upped to 2.3. There should be no changes required for most packages, though new top level directories /media, /srv, etc. may be of interest.

5.1, 5.6.3

All fields, apart from the Uploaders field, in the control file are supposed to be a single logical line, which may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space is elided). However, any parser for the control file must allow the Uploaders field to be spread over multiple physical lines as well, to prepare for future changes.

10.4

When scripts are installed into a directory in the system PATH, the script name should not include an extension that denotes the scripting language currently used to implement it.

9.3.3.2

packages that invoke initscripts now must use invoke-rc.d to do so since it also pays attention to run levels and other local constraints.

11.8.5.2, 11.8.7, etc

We no longer use /usr/X11R6, since we have migrated away to using Xorg paths. This means, for one thing, fonts live in /usr/share/fonts/X11/ now, and /usr/X11R6 is gone.