10.53. Version 3.1.0

Released October, 1999.

defunct

/usr/doc/<package> has to be a symlink pointing to /usr/share/doc/<package>, to be maintained by postinst and prerm scripts.

7.1, 7.6

Introduced source dependencies (Build-Depends, etc.)

9.3.4

/etc/rc.boot has been deprecated in favour of /etc/rcS.d. (Packages should not be touching this directory, but should use update-rc.d instead)

9.3.3

update-rc.d is now the only allowable way of accessing the /etc/rc?.d/[SK]??* links. Any scripts which manipulate them directly must be changed to use update-rc.d instead. (This is because the file-rc package handles this information in an incompatible way.)

12.7

Architecture-specific examples go in /usr/lib/<package>/examples with symlinks from /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples/* or from /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples itself

9.1.1

Updated FHS to a 2.1 draft; this reverts /var/state to /var/lib

9.7; mime-policy

Added MIME sub-policy document

12.4

VISUAL is allowed as a (higher priority) alternative to EDITOR

11.6

Modified liblockfile description, which affects mailbox-accessing programs. Please see the policy document for details

12.7

If a package provides a changelog in HTML format, a text-only version should also be included. (Such a version may be prepared using lynx -dump -nolist.)

3.2.1

Description of how to handle version numbers based on dates added