10.39. Version 3.5.9

Released March, 2003.

3.4.2

The section describing the Description: package field once again has full details of the long description format.

4.2

Clarified that if a package has non-build-essential build-dependencies, it should have them listed in the Build-Depends and related fields (i.e. it’s not merely optional).

9.3.2

When asked to restart a service that isn’t already running, the init script should start the service.

12.6

If the purpose of a package is to provide examples, then the example files can be installed into /usr/share/doc/package (rather than /usr/share/doc/package/examples).