Here’s are some of the bugs against the Debian Policy Manual. In particular, there really are quite a few patches needing seconds from DDs.

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

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

#761219 document versioned Provides

#767839 Linking documentation of arch:any package to arch:all

#770440 policy should mention systemd timers

#773557 Avoid unsafe RPATH/RUNPATH

#780725 PATH used for building is not specified

#793499 The Installed-Size algorithm is out-of-date

#810381 Update wording of 5.6.26 VCS-* fields to recommend encryption

#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:

#688251 Built-Using description too aggressive

#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

#810381 Update wording of 5.6.26 VCS-* fields to recommend encryption

#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

#850729 Documenting special version number suffixes

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

#874090 Clarify wording of some passages

#874095 copyright-format: Use the “synopsis” term established in the de…

Merged for the next release:

#683495 perl scripts: ”#!/usr/bin/perl” MUST or SHOULD?

#877674 [debian-policy] update links to the pdf and other formats of the do…

#878523 [PATCH] Spelling fixes