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Author: Charles Plessy
Revision Date: 2013-10-28 09:40:48 UTC

* Policy: Document the Package-List field.
  Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
  Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
  Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
  Closes: #697433
* Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
  Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
  Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
  Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
  Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
  Closes: #679326
* Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
  Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
  Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
  Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
  Closes: #690293
* Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
  Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
  Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
  Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
  Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
  Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
  Closes: #698030
* Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
  Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
  Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
  Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
  Closes: #669915
* Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
  Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
  Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
  Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
  Closes: #715804
* Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
  Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
  Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
  Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
  Closes: #701081
* Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
  Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
  Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
  Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
  Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
  Closes: #720507
* Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
  Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
  Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
  Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
  Closes: #707183
* Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
  Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
  Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
  Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
  Closes: #707077
* Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
  Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
  Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
  Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
  Closes: #706778
* debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
  Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
  Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
  Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
  Closes: #671355
* virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
  Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
  Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
  Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
  Closes: #668394
* Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
* Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
  Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
* Update dak reference from old katie name.
  Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
* Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
* Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
* Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
  Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
* List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
  Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
* Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
  Closes: #705403
* Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
* Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.
* Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool "config-model-edit".
* Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.