We’re getting close to a new release of Policy. Just this week Adam Borowski stepped up to get a patch written for #881431 – thanks for getting things moving along!

Please consider jumping into some of these bugs.

Consensus has been reached and help is needed to write a patch

#823256 Update maintscript arguments with dpkg >= 1.18.5

#833401 virtual packages: dbus-session-bus, dbus-default-session-bus

#835451 Building as root should be discouraged

#838777 Policy 11.8.4 for x-window-manager needs update for freedesktop menus

#845715 Please document that packages are not allowed to write outside thei…

#853779 Clarify requirements about update-rc.d and invoke-rc.d usage in mai…

#874019 Note that the ’-e’ argument to x-terminal-emulator works like ’–’

#874206 allow a trailing comma in package relationship fields

Wording proposed, awaiting review from anyone and/or seconds by DDs

#756835 Extension of the syntax of the Packages-List field.

#786470 [copyright-format] Add an optional “License-Grant” field

#835451 Building as root should be discouraged

#845255 Include best practices for packaging database applications

#846970 Proposal for a Build-Indep-Architecture: control file field

#864615 please update version of posix standard for scripts (section 10.4)

#881431 Clarify a version number is unique field

#892142 update example to use default-mta instead of exim

Merged for the next release (no action needed)

#299007 Transitioning perms of /usr/local

#515856 remove get-orig-source

#742364 Document debian/missing-sources

#886890 Fix for found typos

#888437 Several example scripts are not valid.

#889960 stray line break at clean target in section 4.9

#892142 update example to use default-mta instead of exim