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22.50 Version 3.1.0
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Released October, 1999.

defunct

     ‘/usr/doc/<package>’ has to be a symlink pointing to
     ‘/usr/share/doc/<package>’, to be maintained by postinst and prerm
     scripts.

7.1, 7.6

     Introduced source dependencies (Build-Depends, etc.)

9.3.4

     ‘/etc/rc.boot’ has been deprecated in favour of ‘/etc/rcS.d’.
     (Packages should not be touching this directory, but should use
     update-rc.d instead)

9.3.3

     update-rc.d is now the `only' allowable way of accessing the
     ‘/etc/rc?.d/[SK]??*’ links.  Any scripts which manipulate them
     directly must be changed to use update-rc.d instead.  (This is
     because the file-rc package handles this information in an
     incompatible way.)

12.7

     Architecture-specific examples go in ‘/usr/lib/<package>/examples’
     with symlinks from ‘/usr/share/doc/<package>/examples/*’ or from
     ‘/usr/share/doc/<package>/examples’ itself

9.1.1

     Updated FHS to a 2.1 draft; this reverts ‘/var/state’ to ‘/var/lib’

9.7; mime-policy

     Added MIME sub-policy document

12.4

     VISUAL is allowed as a (higher priority) alternative to EDITOR

11.6

     Modified liblockfile description, which affects mailbox-accessing
     programs.  Please see the policy document for details

12.7

     If a package provides a changelog in HTML format, a text-only
     version should also be included.  (Such a version may be prepared
     using ‘lynx -dump -nolist’.)

3.2.1

     Description of how to handle version numbers based on dates added