On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 01:21:38PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Joel Aelwyn writes: > > Because policy, unlike RFCs, does not use normative declarations such as > > SHOULD and MUST... > > From debian-policy: > In the normative part of this manual, the words must, should and may, and > the adjectives required, recommended and optional, are used to > distinguish the significance of the various guidelines in this policy > document. Packages that do not conform to the guidelines denoted by must > (or required) will generally not be considered acceptable for the Debian > distribution. Non-conformance with guidelines denoted by should (or > recommended) will generally be considered a bug, but will not > necessarily render a package unsuitable for distribution. Guidelines > denoted by may (or optional) are truly optional and adherence is left to > the maintainer's discretion.
As an additional note to this, the 'generally not be considered acceptable for the Debian distribution' is for as far Sarge is concerned, canonically defined at [1]. --Jeroen [1] http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
