10.43. Version 3.5.5

Released May, 2001.

12.1

Manpages should not rely on header information to have alternative manpage names available; it should only use symlinks or .so pages to do this

Clarified note in 3.5.3.0 upgrading checklist regarding examples and templates: this refers only to those examples used by scripts; see section 10.7.3 for the whole story

Included a new section 10.9.1 describing the use of dpkg-statoverride; this does not have the weight of policy

Clarify Standards-Version: you don’t need to rebuild your packages just to change the Standards-Version!

10.2

Plugins are no longer bound by all the rules of shared libraries

X Windows related things:

• 11.8.1

  Clarification of priority levels of X Window System related packages

  11.8.3

  Rules for defining x-terminal-emulator improved

  11.8.5

  X Font policy rewritten: you must read this if you provide fonts for the X Window System

  11.8.6

  Packages must not ship /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/

  11.8.7

  X-related packages should usually use the regular FHS locations; imake-using packages are exempted from this

  11.8.8

  OpenMotif linked binaries have the same rules as OSF/Motif-linked ones