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22.18 Version 3.9.3
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Released February, 2012.

2.4

     New archive sections `education', `introspection', and
     `metapackages' added.

5.6.8

     The ‘Architecture’ field in ‘*.dsc’ files may now contain the value
     ‘any all’ for source packages building both
     architecture-independent and architecture-dependent packages.

7.1

     If a dependency is restricted to particular architectures, the list
     of architectures must be non-empty.

9.1.1

     ‘/run’ is allowed as an exception to the FHS and replaces
     ‘/var/run’.  ‘/run/lock’ replaces ‘/var/lock’.  The FHS
     requirements for the older directories apply to these directories
     as well.  Backward compatibility links will be maintained and
     packages need not switch to referencing ‘/run’ directly yet.  Files
     in ‘/run’ should be stored in a temporary file system.

9.1.4

     New section spelling out the requirements for packages that use
     files in ‘/run’, ‘/var/run’, or ‘/var/lock’.  This generalizes
     information previously only in 9.3.2.

9.5

     Cron job file names must not contain ‘.’ or ‘+’ or they will be
     ignored by cron.  They should replace those characters with ‘_’.
     If a package provides multiple cron job files in the same
     directory, they should each start with the package name (possibly
     modified as above), ‘-’, and then some suitable suffix.

9.10

     Packages using doc-base do not need to call install-docs anymore.

10.7.4

     Packages that declare the same ‘conffile’ may see left-over
     configuration files from each other even if they conflict.

11.8

     The Policy rules around Motif libraries were just a special case of
     normal rules for non-free dependencies and were largely obsolete,
     so they have been removed.

12.5

     ‘debian/copyright’ is no longer required to list the Debian
     maintainers involved in the creation of the package (although note
     that the requirement to list copyright information is unchanged).

copyright-format

     Version 1.0 of the “Machine-readable ‘debian/copyright’ file”
     specification is included.

mime

     This separate document has been retired and and its (short)
     contents merged into Policy section 9.7.  There are no changes to
     the requirements.

perl

     Packages may declare an interest in the perl-major-upgrade trigger
     to be notified of major upgrades of perl.

virtual

     ‘ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic}’ is renamed to
     ‘fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}’.