On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 01:03:11AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > @@ -113,36 +113,6 @@ > either. Please see <ref id="pkg-scope"> for more information. > </p> > > - <p> > - In the normative part of this manual, > - the words <em>must</em>, <em>should</em> and > - <em>may</em>, and the adjectives <em>required</em>, > - <em>recommended</em> and <em>optional</em>, are used to > - distinguish the significance of the various guidelines in > - this policy document. Packages that do not conform to the > - guidelines denoted by <em>must</em> (or <em>required</em>) > - will generally not be considered acceptable for the Debian > - distribution. Non-conformance with guidelines denoted by > - <em>should</em> (or <em>recommended</em>) will generally be > - considered a bug, but will not necessarily render a package > - unsuitable for distribution. Guidelines denoted by > - <em>may</em> (or <em>optional</em>) are truly optional and > - adherence is left to the maintainer's discretion. > - </p>
I would suggest we use uppercase[1] to denote must, should, may and required, recommended, optional to denote the normative usage. This way we could still use the lowercase word for non-normative usage. at the very least, this would reduce the size of the proposed diff. [1] or any typographical distinction that can represented in the plain text version. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large blue swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
