Debian policy manual - footnotes

1

This applies in the United States, too.

2

In a sense everything is optional that isn't required, but that's not what is meant here.

3

Where package is the name of the package.

4

soname is the shared object name of the shared library - it's the thing that has to match exactly between building an executable and running it for the dynamic linker to be able run the program. Usually the soname is the major number of the library.

5

An MTA's prompting configuration script may wish to prompt the user even if it finds this file exists.

6

If an attacker can subvert any set-user-id game they can overwrite the executable of any other, causing other players of these cames to run a trojan. With a set-group-id game the attacker only gets access to less important game data, and if they can get at the other players' accounts at all it will take considerably more effort.

7

You will need to agree that the parser and its manpage may be distributed under the GNU GPL, just as the rest of dpkg is.

8

where debian-foo is the name of the list


Debian policy manual - Copyright ©1996 Ian Jackson.
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Ian Jackson ijackson@gnu.ai.mit.edu