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22.31 Version 3.7.0
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Released April, 2006.

11.5

     Packages shipping web server CGI files are expected to install them
     in ‘/usr/lib/cgi-lib/’ directories.  This location change perhaps
     should be documented in NEWS

11.5

     Web server packages should include a standard scriptAlias of
     cgi-lib to ‘/usr/lib/cgi-lib’.

9.1.1

     The version of FHS mandated by policy has been upped to 2.3.  There
     should be no changes required for most packages, though new top
     level directories ‘/media’, ‘/srv’, etc.  may be of interest.

5.1, 5.6.3

     All fields, apart from the Uploaders field, in the control file are
     supposed to be a single logical line, which may be spread over
     multiple physical lines (newline followed by space is elided).
     However, any parser for the control file must allow the Uploaders
     field to be spread over multiple physical lines as well, to prepare
     for future changes.

10.4

     When scripts are installed into a directory in the system PATH, the
     script name should not include an extension that denotes the
     scripting language currently used to implement it.

9.3.3.2

     packages that invoke initscripts now must use invoke-rc.d to do so
     since it also pays attention to run levels and other local
     constraints.

11.8.5.2, 11.8.7, etc

     We no longer use ‘/usr/X11R6’, since we have migrated away to using
     Xorg paths.  This means, for one thing, fonts live in
     ‘/usr/share/fonts/X11/’ now, and ‘/usr/X11R6’ is gone.