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22.26 Version 3.8.0
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Released June, 2008.

2.4, 3.7

     The base section has been removed.  contrib and non-free have been
     removed from the section list; they are only categories.  The base
     system is now defined by priority.

4.9

     If ‘dpkg-source -x’ doesn’t provide the source that will be
     compiled, a debian/rules patch target is recommended and should do
     whatever else is necessary.

4.9.1, 10.1

     Standardized the format of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Specified permitted
     characters for tags, required that tags be whitespace-separated,
     allowed packages to assume non-conflicting tags, and required
     unknown flags be ignored.

4.9.1

     Added parallel=n to the standardized DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS tags,
     indicating that a package should be built using up to n parallel
     processes if the package supports it

4.13

     Debian packages should not use convenience copies of code from
     other packages unless the included package is explicitly intended
     to be used that way.

4.14

     If dpkg-source -x doesn’t produce source ready for editing and
     building with dpkg-buildpackage, packages should include a
     ‘debian/README.source’ file explaining how to generate the patched
     source, add a new modification, and remove an existing
     modification.  This file may also be used to document packaging a
     new upstream release and any other complexity of the Debian build
     process.

5.6.3

     The Uploaders field in debian/control may be wrapped.

5.6.12

     An empty Debian revision is equivalent to a Debian revision of 0 in
     a version number.

5.6.23

     New Homepage field for upstream web sites.

6.5, 6.6, 7

     The Breaks field declares that this package breaks another and
     prevents installation of the breaking package unless the package
     named in Breaks is deconfigured first.  This field should not be
     used until the dpkg in Debian stable supports it.

8.1, 8.2

     Clarify which files should go into a shared library package, into a
     separate package, or into the -dev package.  Suggest -tools instead
     of -runtime for runtime support programs, since that naming is more
     common in Debian.

9.5

     Files in ‘/etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}’ must be
     configuration files (upgraded from should).  Mention the hourly
     directory.

11.8.6

     Packages providing ‘/etc/X11/Xresources’ files need not conflict
     with ‘xbase (<< 3.3.2.3a-2)’, which is long-obsolete.

12.1

     Manual pages in locale-specific directories should use either the
     legacy encoding for that directory or UTF-8.  Country names should
     not be included in locale-specific manual page directories unless
     indicating a significant difference in the language.  All
     characters in the manual page source should be representable in the
     legacy encoding for a locale even if the man page is encoded in
     UTF-8.

12.5

     The Apache 2.0 license is now in common-licenses and should be
     referenced rather than quoted in ‘debian/copyright’.

12.5

     Packages in contrib and non-free should state in the copyright file
     that the package is not part of Debian GNU/Linux and briefly
     explain why.

debconf

     Underscore (‘_’) is allowed in debconf template names.