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22.16 Version 3.9.5
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Released October, 2013.

5.1

     Control data fields must not start with the hyphen character (‘-’),
     to avoid potential confusions when parsing clearsigned control data
     files that were not properly unescaped.

5.4, 5.6.24

     ‘Checksums-Sha1’ and ‘Checksums-Sha256’ are now mandatory in ‘.dsc’
     files.

5.6.25, 5.8.1

     The ‘DM-Upload-Allowed’ field is obsolete.  Permissions are now
     granted via `dak-commands' files.

5.6.27

     New section documenting the ‘Package-List’ field in Debian source
     control files.

5.6.28

     New section documenting the ‘Package-Type’ field in source package
     control files.

5.6.29

     New section documenting the ‘Dgit’ field in Debian source control
     files.

9.1.1.8

     The exception to the FHS for the ‘/selinux’ was removed.

10.7.3

     Packages should remove all obsolete configuration files without
     local changes during upgrades.  The ‘dpkg-maintscript-helper’ tool,
     available from the dpkg package since `Wheezy', can help with this.

10.10

     The name of the files and directories installed by binary packages
     must be encoded in UTF-8 and should be restricted to ASCII when
     possible.  In the system PATH, they must be restricted to ASCII.

11.5.2

     Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from
     ‘/usr/share/doc/package’.

12.2

     Packages distributing Info documents should use install-info’s
     trigger, and do not need anymore to depend on ‘dpkg (>= 1.15.4) |
     install-info’.

debconf

     The ‘escape’ capability is now documented.

virtual

     ‘mp3-decoder’ and ‘mp3-encoder’ are removed.