On 31-May-99, 19:02 (CDT), Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Same question as emacs mini-policy. Whether it has the weight of > policy is not the same as whether it is included directly in the > policy document or not.
What's the real benefit of having it be policy? It's just the way to track various proposals. If someone doesn't do exactly the right thing, then the others will either fix it or ignore the proposal. Not everything needs to be policy. Important question to ask when considering whether something should be policy: "How will the Debian user community be hurt if someone doesn't follow the proposed rules?" In this case, not at all. It might annoy a few people on debian-policy, and be inconvenient to Joey or Manoj or whoever is trying to track policy proposals, but it's self-correcting: someone who consistently violates the guidelines will be ignored, or at least won't have any effect on policy. Steve
