Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist
Yann Dirson wrote:
> Nice post - did you sumit the proposal ? I vote "for".
I asked what people thought and got no responses until now. But yeah, I can
make a formal proposal; please second. As it stands, policy says:
2.3.6. Base packages
--------------------
The packages included in the `base' section have a special function.
They form a minimum subset of the Debian GNU/Linux system that is
installed before everything else on a new system. Thus, only very few
packages are allowed to go into the `base' section to keep the required
disk usage very small.
Most of these packages should have the priority value `required' or at
least `important', and many of them will be tagged `essential' (see
below).
You must not place any packages into the `base' section before this has
been discussed on the debian-devel' mailing list and a consensus about
doing that has been reached.
Since Adam tells us this is no longer true and the boot-floppies team
decides what goes in the base system, and since we seem to have a consensus
that the base section is then unnecessary, policy needs to be updated.
Since other parts of policy refer to "the base system", we still need some
definition of what that system is, or quite a few paragraphs (see end of
this email) would need to be changed. Here is one way we could reword policy:
| 2.3.6. The base system
----------------------
|
| The base system is a minimum subset of the Debian GNU/Linux system that is
installed before everything else on a new system. Thus, only very few
| packages are allowed to go into the base system to keep the
| required disk usage very small.
Most of these packages should have the priority value `required' or at
least `important', and many of them will be tagged `essential' (see
below).
You must not place any packages into the `base' section before this has
been discussed on the `debian-devel' mailing list and a consensus about
doing that has been reached.
--
see shy jo
