On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:44:26PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 11-Apr-2001 Julian Gilbey wrote: > > We don't really have any standard way of saying "you really should do > > this as it's a really good thing to do, but there's no requirement to > > do so (and hence not a reason to file bug reports)". > I thought we were using RFC definitions of must and should, and thus 'may' > follows. > Must == have to do this > Should == we recommend you do this > May == we think it is a good idea, but is not always possible/sane/etc
You can also use words other than must/should/may, or make it conditional. For example "Package maintainers are encouraged to write test suites for their package", or "If possible, maintainers should avoid making a package Build-Depend on itself". Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you do not understand, cannot perceive, or don't care about, is too much.'' -- John S. Novak, III (The Humblest Man on the Net)
