We had a release of Debian Policy near the beginning of last month but there hasn’t been much activity since then. Please consider writing or reviewing patches for some of these bugs.

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

#273093 document interactions of multiple clashing package diversions

#314808 Web applications should use /usr/share/package, not /usr/share/doc/…

#425523 Describe error unwind when unpacking a package fails

#452393 Clarify difference between required and important priorities

#556015 Clarify requirements for linked doc directories

#578597 Recommend usage of dpkg-buildflags to initialize CFLAGS and al.

#582109 document triggers where appropriate

#685506 copyright-format: new Files-Excluded field

#757760 please document build profiles

#759316 Document the use of /etc/default for cron jobs

#761219 document versioned Provides

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

#582109 document triggers where appropriate

#737796 copyright-format: support Files: paragraph with both abbreviated na…

#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

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

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

#897217 Vcs-Hg should support -b too

Merged for the next release

#896749 footnote of 3.3 lists deprecated alioth mailinglist URL