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Author: Colin Watson
Revision Date: 2009-06-19 15:04:49 UTC

* Resynchronise with Debian. Remaining changes:
  - Rebrand as "Ubuntu Policy Manual", preserving acknowledgements.
  - Document Ubuntu Maintainer field handling.
  - The Breaks field may safely be used in Ubuntu packages.
  - Document requirement to update the icon cache when installing files
    into subdirectories of /usr/share/icons.
  - Document the layout of the Ubuntu archive.
  - Describe Ubuntu version number conventions.
  - Document the changelog conventions for closing bugs in Launchpad, and
    the Launchpad-Bugs-Fixed .changes field.
  - Recommend that Standards-Version not be adjusted for Ubuntu revisions
    of this manual, and in general that Standards-Version should not be
    changed in Ubuntu for packages originating in Debian.
  - Recommend discussion on ubuntu-devel rather than debian-devel.
  - Document the special semantics of packages in the "metapackages"
    section. See:
    https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-September/026523.html
  - Note that Maintainer field changes for Ubuntu do not generally need to
    be documented in debian/changelog.