>>>>> "Ansgar" == Ansgar Burchardt <ans...@debian.org> writes:
Ansgar> Russ Allbery writes:
>> Matthias Klumpp writes:
>>> With two Debian stable releases defaulting to systemd now, I
>>> think a solid case could be made to at least relax the "must"
>>> requirement to a "should" in policy (but that should better go
>>> to the respective bug report).
>>
>> The Policy process is not equipped to deal with this because that
>> process requires fairly consensus, and I don't believe that's
>> possible to reach on this topic.
Ansgar> If we have no consensus that doing something is the right
Ansgar> thing, then lintian should probably not start raising a
Ansgar> warning about it and one should keep in mind that Policy
Ansgar> might not reflect consensus when referring to it.
When the policy decision was made, I think we did have consensus.
So, no, that's our current policy at least until something changes it.
The processes I'm aware of for changing policy absent a consensus to do
so are GR and TC.
--Sam
