10.56. Version 2.5.0

Released October, 1998.

Please note that section numbers below this point may not match the current Policy Manual.

• Rearranged the manual to create a new Section 4, Files

  • Section 3.3 (“Files”) was moved to Section 4. The Sections that were Section 4 and Section 5 were moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6.

  • What was Section 5.5 (“Log files”) is now a subsection of the new Section 4 (“Files”), becoming section 4.8, placed after “Configuration files”, moving the Section 4.8 (“Permissions and owners”) to Section 4.9. All subsections of the old Section 5 after 5.5 were moved down to fill in the number gap.

• Modified the section about changelog files to accommodate upstream changelogs which were formatted as HTML. These upstream changelog files should now be accessible as /usr/doc/package/changelog.html.gz

• Symlinks are permissible to link the real, or upstream, changelog name to the Debian mandated name.

• Clarified that HTML documentation should be present in some package, though not necessarily the main binary package.

• Corrected all references to the location of the copyright files. The correct location is /usr/doc/package/copyright

• Ratified the architecture specification strings to cater to the HURD.