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22.1 About the checklist
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The checklist below has been created to simplify the upgrading process
of old packages.  This list is not official or normative.  It only
provides an indication of what has changed and whether you are likely to
need to make changes to your package in light of this.  If you have
doubts about a certain topic, if you need more details, or if you think
some other package does not comply with policy, please refer to the
Policy Manual itself.

All of the changes from version 3.0.0 onwards indicate which section of
the Policy Manual discusses the issue.  The section numbering should
still be accurate for changes back to the 2.5.0 release.  Before that
point, the sections listed here probably no longer correspond to
sections in the modern Policy Manual.

Here is how the check list works: Check which policy version your
package was checked against last (indicated in the ‘Standards-Version’
field of the source package).  Then move upwards until the top and check
which of the items on the list might concern your package.  Note which
sections of policy discuss this, and then check out the Policy Manual
for details.  Once you’ve made all necessary changes to match the
current rules, update the value of ‘Standards-Version’ to the current
Policy Manual version.

If an item in the list is followed by the name of a Lintian tag in
square brackets, it indicates that the policy requirement is covered by
that Lintian tag.  The lack of such an annotation does not mean that no
Lintian tag exists to cover the requirement.  Our coverage of these
annotations is quite incomplete, and patches to this checklist are very
welcome.

The sections in this checklist match the values for the
‘Standards-Version’ control field in omitting the minor patch version,
except in the two anomalous historical cases where normative
requirements were changed in a minor patch release.