>>"Julian" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Julian> - MUST and SHOULD change to the universally-recognised IETF meanings
Julian> - the distinction between RC and non-RC bugs is retained clearly
Julian> - it's clear what one ought to do to create a "good" Debian package
Julian> - there's no time component involved
All the above sound good.
Julian> - there's no longer a suggestion of using policy as anything other
Julian> than a set of guidelines
Is that really the case? I certainly do not find that I treat
Policy as a guideline, to be followed or violated at my whimsy; I do
think of it as a set of rules, and as all rules, there may be
exceptions. I would hesitate to declare such an exception myself,
though, and I'd ask for a ruling on an exception to policy rather than
deciding that on my own.
And when I slip up, and no longer follow policy, there are all
these people helpfully pointing that out to me in bug reports.
Perhaps I am getting bogged down in semantics here. But part
of the value of policy is that I can rely on packages in Debian to
follow the rules (and not just when the maintainer chose to follow
the guideline), so that my packages can add value that would not be
possible in an anarchic environment.
manoj
--
To be wise, the only thing you really need to know is when to say "I
don't know."
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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