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22.23 Version 3.8.3
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Released August, 2009.

4.9

     DEB_*_ARCH_CPU and DEB_*_ARCH_OS variables are now documented and
     recommended over GNU-style variables for that information.

5.6.8

     Source package Architecture fields may contain `all' in combination
     with other architectures.  Clarify when `all' and `any' may be used
     in different versions of the field.

5.6.14

     The Debian archive software does not support uploading to multiple
     distributions with one ‘*.changes’ file.

5.6.19

     The Binary field may span multiple lines.

10.2

     Shared library packages are no longer allowed to install libraries
     in a non-standard location and modify ‘ld.so.conf’.  Packages
     should either be installed in a standard library directory or
     packages using them should be built with RPATH.

11.8.7

     Installation directories for X programs have been clarified.
     Packages are no longer required to pre-depend on x11-common before
     installing into ‘/usr/include/X11’ and ‘/usr/lib/X11’.

12.1

     Manual pages are no longer required to contain only characters
     representable in the legacy encoding for that language.

12.1

     Localized man pages should either be kept up-to-date with the
     original version or warn that they’re not up-to-date, either with
     warning text or by showing missing or changed portions in the
     original language.

12.2

     install-info is now handled via triggers so packages no longer need
     to invoke it in maintainer scripts.  Info documents should now have
     directory sections and entries in the document.  Packages
     containing info documents should add a dependency to support
     partial upgrades.

perl

     The requirement for Perl modules to have a versioned Depend and
     Build-Depend on ‘perl >= 5.6.0-16’ has been removed.