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22.4 Version 4.2.0
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Released August, 2018.

4.9

     The package build should be as verbose as reasonably possible.
     This means that ‘debian/rules’ should pass to the commands it
     invokes options that cause them to produce verbose output.

4.9

     Required targets may attempt network access, via the loopback
     interface, to services on the build host that have been started by
     the build.

4.9.1

     New ‘terse’ tag that can appear in ‘DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS’ to make a
     package build less verbose.

5.2 & 5.4

     The Standards-Version field is now mandatory, not just recommended.

12.7

     Upstream release notes, when available, should be installed as
     ‘/usr/share/doc/package/NEWS.gz’.  Upstream changelogs may be made
     available as ‘/usr/share/doc/package/changelog.gz’.

     This is a relaxation of older Policy which said that the upstream
     changelog should be made accessible at this path.  Now it is up to
     maintainer discretion whether it is useful to install it.

     The practice of installing the upstream release notes as
     ‘/usr/share/doc/package/changelog.gz’ is permitted but deprecated.