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| -rw-r--r-- | policy/ch-source.rst | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | policy/upgrading-checklist.rst | 5 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/policy/ch-source.rst b/policy/ch-source.rst index f1366b0..ee9270d 100644 --- a/policy/ch-source.rst +++ b/policy/ch-source.rst @@ -786,6 +786,13 @@ according to this convention, the C source code of an executable ``checksum/util`` is to be located at ``debian/missing-sources/checksum/util.c``. +Vendor-specific patch series +---------------------------- + +Packages in the Debian archive using the 3.0 (quilt) source package +format should not contain a non-default series file. That is, there +should not exist a file ``debian/patches/foo.series`` for any ``foo``. + .. [#] Rationale: diff --git a/policy/upgrading-checklist.rst b/policy/upgrading-checklist.rst index 810f3ae..905e695 100644 --- a/policy/upgrading-checklist.rst +++ b/policy/upgrading-checklist.rst @@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ Unreleased. 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`` |