Nothing is unusual about this package's source organization vis à vis Debian
Policy §4.14.

However this file does seem to be a good place to put the former
debian/checklist, as follows.

New upstream version checklist:
* Summarize new features in debian/changelog.
* Document any hugely noteworthy new features in debian/control.
* Ensure new upstream files are shipped, and files deleted upstream are no
  longer shipped, as appropriate.
* Migrate patches.
* Run "debian/rules check-source".  Update debian/copyright accordingly.

Debian Policy Compliance
========================

Here's a copy of material from
/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz, annotated with my
comments regarding each requirement's applicability to the xtrs package.

Unlike the Policy Manual's copy, this is in (forward, not reverse) chronological
order.

10.11. Version 3.9.8
====================

Released April, 2016.

9.6
   The menu system is deprecated in favor of the FreeDesktop menu
   standard. New requirements set for FreeDesktop menu entries.
    [GBR] Not applicable.  xtrs provides no icon, so cannot comply with the
    FreeDesktop menu standard.

9.7
   New instructions for registering media type handlers with the
   FreeDesktop system, which automatically synchronizes with mailcap
   and therefore replaces mailcap registration for packages using
   desktop entries.
    [GBR] Not applicable.  xtrs provides no icon, so cannot comply with the
    FreeDesktop menu standard.  xtrs also provides no MIME file-type handler.
    (If a virtual machine dump format for TRS-80 emulators is ever developed,
    that may change.)


10.10. Version 4.0.0
====================

Released May, 2017.

4.3
   "config.sub" and "config.guess" should be updated at build time or
   replaced with the versions from autotools-dev.
    [GBR] Not applicable.  Perhaps incredibly, xtrs builds on all of Debian's
    supported architectures (and a few others) without the use of Autoconf.  :)
    All build configuration options are found in Makefile.local, which is only
    18 lines after blank and comment lines are stripped.

4.9
   New "TARGET" set of "dpkg-architecture" variables and new
   "DEB_*_ARCH_BITS" and "DEB_*_ARCH_ENDIAN" variables.
    [GBR] Not (apparently) applicable; xtrs seems to build fine (see above) on
    Debian hosts with varying machine word sizes and endiannesses.

4.9.1
   New "DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS" tag, "nodoc", which says to suppress
   documentation generation (but continue to build all binary
   packages, even documentation packages, just let them be mostly
   empty).
    [GBR] Updated
      debian/patches/make-plain-text-docs-from-html.patch
      debian/patches/makefile-generate-pdf-manpages.patch
    to respect this build option.

5.2
   Automatically-generated debug packages do not need to have a
   corresponding paragraph in "debian/control". (This is existing
   practice; this Policy update is just clearer about it.)
    [GBR] Already compliant.

5.6.12
   Colons are not permitted in upstream version numbers.
    [GBR] Not applicable; upstream doesn't use them.

7.7
   New "Build-Depends-Arch" and "Build-Conflicts-Arch" fields are now
   supported.
    [GBR] Not applicable; no arch-independent packages are built.

8.4
   The recommended package name for shared library development files
   is now libraryname-dev or librarynameapiversion-dev, not
   librarynamesoversion-dev.
    [GBR] Not applicable; no libraries are built.

9.1.1
   The stable release of Debian supports "/run", so packages may now
   assume that it exists and do not need any special dependency on a
   version of initscripts.
    [GBR] Not applicable; no services are built.

9.3.2
   New optional "try-restart" standard init script argument, which (if
   supported) should restart the service if it is already running and
   otherwise just report success.
    [GBR] Not applicable; no services are built.

9.3.2
   Support for the "status" init script argument is recommended.
    [GBR] Not applicable; no services are built.

9.3.3.2
   Packages must not call "/etc/init.d" scripts directly even as a
   fallback, and instead must always use "invoke-rc.d" (which is
   essential and shouldn’t require any conditional).
    [GBR] Not applicable; no services are built.

9.11.1
   Instructions for "upstart" integration removed since "upstart" is
   no longer maintained in Debian.
    [GBR] Not applicable; no services are built.

10.1
   Packages may not install files in both "/path" and "/usr/path", and
   must manage any backward-compatibility symlinks so that they don’t
   break if "/path" and "/usr/path" are the same directory.
    [GBR] Already compliant; everything goes into /usr.

10.6
   Packages should assume device files in "/dev" are dynamically
   managed and don’t have to be created by the package. Packages other
   than those whose purpose is to manage "/dev" must not create or
   remove files there when a dynamic management facility is in use.
   Named pipes and device files outside of "/dev" should normally be
   created on demand via init scripts, systemd units, or similar
   mechanisms, but may be created and removed in maintainer scripts if
   they must be created during package installation.
    [GBR] Already compliant; the device files xtrs opens (/dev/dsp, /dev/fd[01],
    /dev/tty[0S]0) are assumed to be present, and regard their management as
    someone else's problem.

10.9
   Checking with the base-passwd maintainer is no longer required (or
   desirable) when creating a new dynamic user or group in a package.
    [GBR] Not applicable; xtrs requires creation of no users or groups, and
    doesn't even call any [GU]ID-related C library functions apart from ones I
    disabled in debian/patches/add-ifdef-guards-around-setuid.patch.

12.3
   Dependencies on *-doc packages should be at most Recommends
   (Suggests if they only include documentation in supplemental
   formats).
    [GBR] Already compliant; no -doc dependencies of any strength present.

12.5
   The Mozilla Public License 1.1 and 2.0 (MPL-1.1 and MPL-2.0) are
   now included in "/usr/share/common-licenses" and do not need to be
   copied verbatim in the package "copyright" file.
    [GBR] Not applicable; those licenses are not used.

copyright-format
   The "https" form of the copyright-format URL is now allowed and
   preferred in the "Format" field.
    [GBR] Not applicable; Tim doesn't support HTTPS at his site yet.

perl
   The Perl search path now includes multiarch directories. The vendor
   directory for architecture-specific modules is now versioned to
   support multiarch.
    [GBR] Not applicable; no aspect of xtrs is implemented in Perl.

virtual
   New "adventure" virtual package for implementations of the classic
   Colossal Cave Adventure game.
    [GBR] Not applicable, but now I'm going to waste time finding out just how
    many implementations of Colossal Cave are _in_ Debian...

virtual
   New "httpd-wsgi3" virtual package for Python 3 WSGI-capable HTTP
   servers. The existing "httpd-wsgi" virtual package is for Python 2
   WSGI-capable HTTP servers.
    [GBR] Not applicable; xtrs does not provide an HTTP server.

virtual
   New "virtual-mysql-client", "virtual-mysql-client-core", "virtual-
   mysql-server", "virtual-mysql-server-core", and "virtual-mysql-
   testsuite" virtual packages for MySQL-compatible software.
    [GBR] Not applicable; xtrs does not make or offer MySQL connections.

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