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22.40 Version 3.5.5
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Released May, 2001.

12.1

     Manpages should not rely on header information to have alternative
     manpage names available; it should only use symlinks or .so pages
     to do this

     `Clarified note in 3.5.3.0 upgrading checklist regarding examples
     and templates: this refers only to those examples used by scripts;
     see section 10.7.3 for the whole story'

     Included a new section 10.9.1 describing the use of
     dpkg-statoverride; this does not have the weight of policy

     Clarify Standards-Version: you don’t need to rebuild your packages
     just to change the Standards-Version!

10.2

     Plugins are no longer bound by all the rules of shared libraries

X Windows related things:

     11.8.1

          Clarification of priority levels of X Window System related
          packages

     11.8.3

          Rules for defining x-terminal-emulator improved

     11.8.5

          X Font policy rewritten: you must read this if you provide
          fonts for the X Window System

     11.8.6

          Packages must not ship ‘/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/’

     11.8.7

          X-related packages should usually use the regular FHS
          locations; imake-using packages are exempted from this

     11.8.8

          OpenMotif linked binaries have the same rules as
          OSF/Motif-linked ones