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22.36 Version 3.5.9
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Released March, 2003.

3.4.2

     The section describing the Description: package field once again
     has full details of the long description format.

4.2

     Clarified that if a package has non-build-essential
     build-dependencies, it should have them listed in the Build-Depends
     and related fields (i.e.  it’s not merely optional).

9.3.2

     When asked to restart a service that isn’t already running, the
     init script should start the service.

12.6

     If the purpose of a package is to provide examples, then the
     example files can be installed into ‘/usr/share/doc/package’
     (rather than ‘/usr/share/doc/package/examples’).