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22.17 Version 3.9.4
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Released August, 2012.

2.4

     New `tasks' archive section.

4.9

     ‘build-arch’ and ‘build-indep’ are now mandatory targets in
     ‘debian/rules’.

5.6.26

     New section documenting the ‘Vcs-*’ fields, which are already in
     widespread use.  Note the mechanism for specifying the Git branch
     used for packaging in the Vcs-Git field.

7.1

     The deprecated relations < and > now must not be used.

7.8

     New ‘Built-Using’ field, which must be used to document the source
     packages for any binaries that are incorporated into this package
     at build time.  This is used to ensure that the archive meets
     license requirements for providing source for all binaries.

8.6

     Policy for dependencies between shared libraries and other packages
     has been largely rewritten to document the ‘symbols’ system and
     more clearly document handling of shared library ABI changes.
     ‘symbols’ files are now recommended over ‘shlibs’ files in most
     situations.  All maintainers of shared library packages should
     review the entirety of this section.

9.1.1

     Packages must not assume the ‘/run’ directory exists or is usable
     without a dependency on ‘initscripts (>= 2.88dsf-13.3)’ until the
     stable release of Debian supports ‘/run’.

9.7

     Packages including MIME configuration can now rely on triggers and
     do not need to call update-mime.

9.11

     New section documenting general requirements for alternate init
     systems and specific requirements for integrating with upstart.

12.5

     All copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8.