10.5. Version 4.3.0

Released December, 2018.

2.3 & 4.5

In cases where a package’s distribution license explicitly permits its copyright information to be excluded from distributions of binaries built from the source, a verbatim copy of the package’s copyright information should normally still be included in the copyright file, but it need not be if creating and maintaining a copy of that information involves significant time and effort.

4.9

Required targets must not write outside of the unpacked source package tree, except for TMPDIR, /tmp and /var/tmp.

4.17

Packages should not contain a non-default series file. That is, dpkg’s vendor-specific patch series feature should not be used for packages in the Debian archive.

10.1

Binaries should be stripped using strip --strip-unneeded --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note (as dh_strip already does).

10.1

It is no longer suggested nor recommended to use install -s to strip binaries, because it gets several things wrong.

10.2

When stripping shared libraries with strip(1), you should additionally pass --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note (as dh_strip already does).

virtual

New dbus-session-bus and default-dbus-session-bus virtual packages for a package providing the D-Bus session bus, and for Debian’s preferred D-Bus implementation, respectively.