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• 2026/02/09 Bug#1058589: developers-reference: please mention urgency=critical/emergency for completeness Russ Allbery
• 2026/02/09 Bug#1063605: debian-policy: mandate use of `dpkg-buildflags` for all software compilation on Debian Russ Allbery
• 2026/02/09 Bug#1063605: debian-policy: mandate use of `dpkg-buildflags` for all software compilation on Debian Bill Allombert
• 2026/02/09 Bug#1039979: /var/run and /var/lock should not be absolute symlinks Bastien Roucaries
• 2026/02/09 Bug#1039979: /var/run and /var/lock should not be absolute symlinks Bastien Roucaries
• 2026/02/09 Bug#1058589: developers-reference: please mention urgency=critical/emergency for completeness Holger Levsen
• 2026/02/09 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Marc Haber
• 2026/02/08 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Dmitry E. Oboukhov
• 2026/02/08 Re: Sentence formatting note/question for Policy Russ Allbery
• 2026/02/08 Bug#1095039: debian-policy: Development files: Allow using linker scripts instead of symlinks Guillem Jover
• 2026/02/08 Re: Sentence formatting note/question for Policy Guillem Jover
• 2026/02/08 Bug#1095039: debian-policy: Development files: Allow using linker scripts instead of symlinks Aurelien Jarno
• 2026/02/08 Processed: user [email protected], limit package to debian-policy ..., usertagging 1058589 Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/02/08 Bug#1058589: developers-reference: please mention urgency=critical/emergency for completeness Russ Allbery
• 2026/02/08 Processed: user [email protected], limit package to debian-policy ..., usertagging 1039979 ... Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/02/08 Bug#1039979: /var/run and /var/lock should not be absolute symlinks Russ Allbery
• 2026/02/08 Bug#1063605: debian-policy: mandate use of `dpkg-buildflags` for all software compilation on Debian Russ Allbery
• 2026/02/08 Bug#1063605: debian-policy: mandate use of `dpkg-buildflags` for all software compilation on Debian Bill Allombert
• 2026/02/08 Bug#1057057: marked as done (debian-policy: Please make Checksums-Sha1 optional) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/02/08 Processed: user [email protected], limit package to debian-policy, usertagging 1057057 ... Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/02/08 Processed: user [email protected], limit package to debian-policy, usertagging 1092762 ... Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/02/08 Bug#1092762: debian-policy: Double "except" in same sentence (4.9) Russ Allbery
• 2026/02/08 Re: Sentence formatting note/question for Policy Russ Allbery
• 2026/02/08 Processed: user [email protected], limit package to debian-policy, usertagging 1063605 ... Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/02/08 Bug#1063605: debian-policy: mandate use of `dpkg-buildflags` for all software compilation on Debian Russ Allbery
• 2026/02/08 Bug#1095039: debian-policy: Development files: Allow using linker scripts instead of symlinks Russ Allbery
• 2026/02/08 Re: Sentence formatting note/question for Policy Sean Whitton
• 2026/02/08 Bug#1095039: debian-policy: Development files: Allow using linker scripts instead of symlinks Sean Whitton
• 2026/02/08 Re: Sentence formatting note/question for Policy Russ Allbery
• 2026/02/08 Bug#1095039: debian-policy: Development files: Allow using linker scripts instead of symlinks Russ Allbery
• 2026/02/08 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Thomas Goirand
• 2026/02/08 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Marc Haber
• 2026/02/08 Bug#1063605: debian-policy: mandate use of `dpkg-buildflags` for all software compilation on Debian Sean Whitton
• 2026/02/08 Re: Sentence formatting note/question for Policy Simon McVittie
• 2026/02/08 Re: Sentence formatting note/question for Policy Sean Whitton
• 2026/02/08 Re: Sentence formatting note/question for Policy Simon Josefsson
• 2026/02/08 Bug#1095039: debian-policy: Development files: Allow using linker scripts instead of symlinks Sean Whitton
• 2026/02/08 Re: Sentence formatting note/question for Policy Sean Whitton
• 2026/02/07 Sentence formatting note/question for Policy Russ Allbery
• 2026/02/07 Bug#1084911: marked as done (debian-policy: include a Vcs-* example) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/02/07 Processed: user [email protected], limit package to debian-policy, tagging 1067079 Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/02/07 Bug#1095039: debian-policy: Development files: Allow using linker scripts instead of symlinks Russ Allbery
• 2026/02/07 Bug#1063605: debian-policy: mandate use of `dpkg-buildflags` for all software compilation on Debian Russ Allbery
• 2026/02/07 Bug#1063605: debian-policy: mandate use of `dpkg-buildflags` for all software compilation on Debian Simon Josefsson
• 2026/02/07 Bug#1063605: debian-policy: mandate use of `dpkg-buildflags` for all software compilation on Debian Bill Allombert
• 2026/02/07 Bug#1067079: marked as done (Clarify that policy on a technology does not implicitly mandate that technology) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/02/07 Processed: user [email protected], limit package to debian-policy, tagging 1067079 Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/02/07 Bug#1063605: debian-policy: mandate use of `dpkg-buildflags` for all software compilation on Debian Russ Allbery
• 2026/02/07 Bug#1127343: Clarify debian/copyright requirement for non-free-firmware too Russ Allbery
• 2026/02/07 Processed: user [email protected], limit package to debian-policy, tagging 1127343 ... Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/02/07 Processed: user [email protected], limit package to debian-policy, tagging 1124443 ... Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/02/07 Bug#1124443: debian-policy: misleading information about Priority field in upgrading checklist Russ Allbery
• 2026/02/07 Bug#1127343: Clarify debian/copyright requirement for non-free-firmware too Simon Josefsson
• 2026/02/07 Bug#1127343: Clarify debian/copyright requirement for non-free-firmware too Russ Allbery
• 2026/02/07 Bug#1127343: Clarify debian/copyright requirement for non-free-firmware too Sean Whitton
• 2026/02/07 Bug#1127343: Clarify debian/copyright requirement for non-free-firmware too Simon Josefsson
• 2026/02/05 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Sam Hartman
• 2026/02/05 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Russ Allbery
• 2026/02/05 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Dmitry E. Oboukhov
• 2026/02/05 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Andrea Pappacoda
• 2026/02/05 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Bastien Roucaries
• 2026/02/05 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Helmut Grohne
• 2026/02/03 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Gunnar Wolf
• 2026/02/03 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Gunnar Wolf
• 2026/02/03 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Peter Pentchev
• 2026/02/03 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Bastien Roucaries
• 2026/02/03 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Bill Allombert
• 2026/02/03 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Marc Haber
• 2026/02/03 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Marc Haber
• 2026/02/03 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Sean Whitton
• 2026/02/03 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Jonas Smedegaard
• 2026/02/03 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Dmitry E. Oboukhov
• 2026/02/03 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Jonas Smedegaard
• 2026/02/03 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Aaron Rainbolt
• 2026/02/03 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Jonas Smedegaard
• 2026/02/03 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Jonas Smedegaard
• 2026/02/03 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Dmitry E. Oboukhov
• 2026/02/03 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Dmitry E. Oboukhov
• 2026/02/03 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Jeremy Bicha
• 2026/02/03 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Dmitry E. Oboukhov
• 2026/02/03 Re: [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Peter Pentchev
• 2026/02/03 [DRAFT] Policy: allow packages with bundled dependencies subject to mandatory labelling Dmitry E. Oboukhov
• 2026/01/29 Bug#1029831: debian-policy: Make required packages build-essential Guillem Jover
• 2026/01/29 Bug#401452: Standardize syntax of the name in the Maintainer control field Guillem Jover
• 2026/01/24 Re: Bug#795402: base-files: Please add Creative Commons license texts Soren Stoutner
• 2026/01/23 Bug#795402: base-files: Please add Creative Commons license texts Charles Plessy
• 2026/01/19 Re: Bug#401452: Standardize syntax of the name in the Maintainer control field Guillem Jover
• 2026/01/18 Processing of developers-reference_14.3_source.changes Debian FTP Masters
• 2026/01/18 developers-reference_14.3_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable Debian FTP Masters
• 2026/01/03 Bug#1124443: debian-policy: misleading information about Priority field in upgrading checklist Simon Josefsson
• 2026/01/02 Bug#1124443: debian-policy: misleading information about Priority field in upgrading checklist Aurelien Jarno
• 2026/01/02 Bug#1124522: debian-policy: Suggest 0.0~ in front of date-based versions Sean Whitton
• 2026/01/01 Bug#1124443: debian-policy: misleading information about Priority field in upgrading checklist Russ Allbery
• 2026/01/01 Bug#1124443: debian-policy: misleading information about Priority field in upgrading checklist Aurelien Jarno
• 2026/01/01 Bug#1124443: debian-policy: misleading information about Priority field in upgrading checklist Sean Whitton
• 2026/01/01 Bug#1124443: debian-policy: misleading information about Priority field in upgrading checklist Aurelien Jarno
• 2025/12/27 Re: Add guidance for file locking; transition from existence-based locking and /var/lock to file locking Josh Triplett
• 2025/12/27 Re: Add guidance for file locking; transition from existence-based locking and /var/lock to file locking Sean Whitton
• 2025/12/26 Re: Stop compressing manual pages Simon McVittie
• 2025/12/26 Re: Stop compressing manual pages Marc Haber
• 2025/12/25 Re: Stop compressing manual pages G. Branden Robinson
• 2025/12/25 Re: Stop compressing manual pages Russ Allbery
• 2025/12/25 Stop compressing manual pages (was: Bug#1123959: manpages: Please consider shipping uncompressed man pages) Alejandro Colomar
• 2025/12/24 Re: Add guidance for file locking; transition from existence-based locking and /var/lock to file locking Josh Triplett
• 2025/12/23 Bug#1114994: marked as done (debian-policy: Remove obsolete reference to MSDOS-Filename field) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2025/12/23 Bug#1110017: marked as done (debian-policy: Priority should no longer be `recommended`) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2025/12/23 Bug#1100632: marked as done (debian-policy: document subuids) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2025/12/23 Bug#1091868: marked as done (debian-policy: Document Git-Tag-Tagger and Git-Tag-Info fields) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2025/12/23 Bug#1100455: marked as done (debian-policy: Reporting a typo) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2025/12/23 Processing of debian-policy_4.7.3.0_source.changes Debian FTP Masters
• 2025/12/23 debian-policy_4.7.3.0_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable Debian FTP Masters
• 2025/12/21 Bug#1123657: marked as done (debian-policy: Virtual package name list not updated) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2025/12/21 Bug#1123657: debian-policy: Virtual package name list not updated Gard Spreemann
• 2025/12/19 Bug#1123657: debian-policy: Virtual package name list not updated Sean Whitton
• 2025/12/19 Bug#1123657: debian-policy: Virtual package name list not updated Gard Spreemann
• 2025/12/18 Bug#757760: debian-policy: please document build profiles Guillem Jover
• 2025/12/18 Bug#1117566: debian-policy: Unclear wording of user-defined control fields Guillem Jover
• 2025/12/10 Processed: block bug report Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2025/12/10 Bug#1122270: block bug report Rafael Laboissière
• 2025/12/10 Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Rafael Laboissière
• 2025/12/10 Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Marc Haber
• 2025/12/10 Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Sean Whitton
• 2025/12/10 Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Santiago Vila
• 2025/12/10 Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Rafael Laboissière
• 2025/12/10 Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Rafael Laboissière
• 2025/12/10 Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Santiago Vila
• 2025/12/10 Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Santiago Vila
• 2025/12/09 Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Rafael Laboissière
• 2025/12/09 Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Guillem Jover
• 2025/12/09 Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Simon McVittie
• 2025/12/09 Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Santiago Vila
• 2025/12/09 Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Rafael Laboissière
• 2025/12/09 Processed: Re: Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2025/12/05 Bug#757760: debian-policy: please document build profiles Guillem Jover
• 2025/12/04 Re: Bug#1121601: debian-policy: encourage keeping backwards compatibility with older releases past current minus one Otto Kekäläinen
• 2025/12/04 Re: Bug#1121601: debian-policy: encourage keeping backwards compatibility with older releases past current minus one gregor herrmann
• 2025/12/03 Bug#1121601: debian-policy: encourage keeping backwards compatibility with older releases past current minus one Jeremy Bícha
• 2025/11/29 Bug#1121601: debian-policy: encourage keeping backwards compatibility with older releases past current minus one Santiago Vila
• 2025/11/29 Bug#1121601: debian-policy: encourage keeping backwards compatibility with older releases past current minus one Bill Allombert
• 2025/11/29 Bug#1121601: debian-policy: encourage keeping backwards compatibility with older releases past current minus one Chris Hofstaedtler
• 2025/11/29 Bug#1121601: debian-policy: encourage keeping backwards compatibility with older releases past current minus one Daniel Baumann
• 2025/11/28 Bug#1121601: debian-policy: encourage keeping backwards compatibility with older releases past current minus one Otto Kekäläinen
• 2025/11/26 Bug#757760: please update the spec for the Build-Profiles attribute Matthias Klose
• 2025/11/26 Bug#757760: please update the spec for the Build-Profiles attribute Guillem Jover
• 2025/11/26 Bug#757760: please update the spec for the Build-Profiles attribute Guillem Jover
• 2025/11/26 Bug#757760: please update the spec for the Build-Profiles attribute Matthias Klose
• 2025/11/25 Bug#757760: debian-policy: please document build profiles Sean Whitton
• 2025/11/24 Bug#757760: please update the spec for the Build-Profiles attribute Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
• 2025/11/23 Bug#757760: please update the spec for the Build-Profiles attribute Matthias Klose
• 2025/11/23 Processing of developers-reference_14.2_source.changes Debian FTP Masters
• 2025/11/23 developers-reference_14.2_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable Debian FTP Masters
• 2025/11/18 Bug#1120935: debian-policy: Remove /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD reference Santiago Vila
• 2025/11/18 Bug#1120935: debian-policy: Remove /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD reference Sean Whitton
• 2025/11/18 Bug#1120935: debian-policy: Remove /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD reference Santiago Vila
• 2025/11/18 Bug#1120935: debian-policy: Remove /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD reference Santiago Vila
• 2025/11/18 Bug#1120935: debian-policy: Remove /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD reference Santiago Vila
• 2025/11/18 Bug#1120935: debian-policy: Remove /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD reference Santiago Vila
• 2025/11/18 Bug#1120935: debian-policy: Remove /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD reference Sean Whitton
• 2025/11/18 Bug#1120935: debian-policy: Remove /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD reference Santiago Vila
• 2025/11/18 Bug#1120935: debian-policy: Remove /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD reference Bastian Germann
• 2025/11/18 Bug#757760: debian-policy: please document build profiles Helmut Grohne
• 2025/11/17 Bug#757760: debian-policy: please document build profiles Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
• 2025/11/16 Bug#757760: debian-policy: please document build profiles Helmut Grohne
• 2025/11/15 Processed: Re: Bug#1114478: developers-reference: FTBFS: LaTeX error Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2025/11/15 Bug#1114478: developers-reference: FTBFS: LaTeX error Dmitry Shachnev
• 2025/11/12 Bug#1114478: developers-reference: FTBFS: LaTeX error Holger Levsen
• 2025/11/12 Bug#1114478: developers-reference: FTBFS: LaTeX error Adrian Bunk
• 2025/11/12 Processed: Re: Bug#1114478: developers-reference: FTBFS: LaTeX error Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2025/11/11 Processed: Re: Bug#1114478: developers-reference: FTBFS: LaTeX error Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2025/11/02 Processing of developers-reference_14.1_source.changes Debian FTP Masters
• 2025/11/02 Bug#1094412: marked as done (developers-reference: link to the library packaging guide return 403 Forbidden) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2025/11/02 developers-reference_14.1_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable Debian FTP Masters
• 2025/10/26 Processed: Bug#1094412 marked as pending in developers-reference Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2025/10/26 Bug#1094412: marked as pending in developers-reference Holger Levsen
• 2025/10/26 Bug#1094412: marked as pending in developers-reference Holger Levsen
• 2025/10/26 Processed: Bug#1094412 marked as pending in developers-reference Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2025/10/25 Bug#1029831: debian-policy: Make required packages build-essential Santiago Vila
• 2025/10/25 Bug#1029831: debian-policy: Make required packages build-essential Santiago Vila
• 2025/10/25 Bug#1102295: d/control must not change during build Jochen Sprickerhof
• 2025/10/25 Bug#1029831: debian-policy: Make required packages build-essential Jochen Sprickerhof
• 2025/10/24 Bug#1118763: debian-policy: Don't mention doc-base any more Jeremy Bícha
• 2025/10/24 Bug#1118763: debian-policy: Don't mention doc-base any more Jeremy Bícha
• 2025/10/24 Bug#1118763: debian-policy: Don't mention doc-base any more Jeremy Bícha
• 2025/10/24 Bug#1118763: debian-policy: Don't mention doc-base any more Jeremy Bícha
• 2025/10/18 Bug#1110017: debian-policy: Priority should no longer be `recommended` Nilesh Patra
• 2025/10/18 Bug#1117926: debian-policy: url to man-page-howto is broken Fab Stz
• 2025/10/18 Re: Re: Transitioning from existence-based lockfiles and /var/lock to flock Josh Triplett
• 2025/10/18 Bug#1118371: Add guidance for file locking; transition from existence-based locking and /var/lock to file locking Josh Triplett
• 2025/10/18 Bug#846970: debian-policy: Proposal for a Build-Indep-Architecture: control file field John Scott
• 2025/10/18 Bug#1110017: debian-policy: Priority should no longer be `recommended` Guillem Jover
• 2025/10/18 Bug#1110017: debian-policy: Priority should no longer be `recommended` Sean Whitton
• 2025/10/18 Re: Transitioning from existence-based lockfiles and /var/lock to flock Bastian Blank
• 2025/10/18 Re: Transitioning from existence-based lockfiles and /var/lock to flock Simon McVittie
• 2025/10/18 Re: Transitioning from existence-based lockfiles and /var/lock to flock Josh Triplett
• 2025/10/17 Bug#1118188: be more precise about conffiles handling Bill Allombert
• 2025/10/17 Bug#1091868: debian-policy: Document Git-Tag-Tagger and Git-Tag-Info fields Sean Whitton
• 2025/10/17 Bug#682347: editor policy Bastien Roucaries
• 2025/10/17 Bug#1091868: debian-policy: Document Git-Tag-Tagger and Git-Tag-Info fields Guillem Jover
• 2025/10/17 Bug#1117566: debian-policy: Unclear wording of user-defined control fields Guillem Jover
• 2025/10/17 Re: Transitioning from existence-based lockfiles and /var/lock to flock Russ Allbery

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