This proposal would add to the scope section of the Policy document a paragraph saying that when Policy doesn't make sense, it should be discussed on -devel and -policy, and that if packages need to make an exception for some reason that shouldn't be mentioned in Policy, they should note this in README.Debian.
The proposal was discussed for a while in 2001 and then died and there's been no further discussion in the past seven years. During the original discussion, there were several questions about which sorts of exceptions would be documented in README.Debian and why we wouldn't modify Policy in those cases instead, but not a lot of progress on producing consensus wording. I'm rejecting this proposal due to lack of consensus and because I don't think the problem it was meant to address warrants a change in Policy. This is a soft rejection, meaning that if someone feels strongly about this proposal and wants to step forward to champion it again, I'd be willing to reopen the bug. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
