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22.53 Version 2.5.0
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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.