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22.34 Version 3.6.0
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Released July, 2003.

Restructuring caused shifts in section numbers and bumping of the minor
version number.

Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.  In
particular, the appendices that included the list of control fields were
updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added) and the list of
fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files is now in Policy,
and they’re marked mandatory, recommended or optional based on the
current practice and the behavior of the deb-building tool-chain.

Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the chapter
Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out, Binary
packages and Source packages.  What remained was reordered properly,
that is, some sects became sects etc.

Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed with
any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
and their placement in the file system.  In particular, see the new
sections about changelog files.

menu policy

     Added Games/Simulation and Apps/Education to menu sub-policy

C.2.2

     Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded.

10.2

     shared libraries must be linked against all libraries that they use
     symbols from in the same way that binaries are.

7.6

     build-depends-indep need not be satisfied during clean target.