Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:22:46PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> The text of the multiarch exception as committed says that: >> "Packages may not install files into any triplet path other than the >> one matching the architecture of that package" >> Was that "may not" (and another subsequent one) supposed to be "must not"? > "may not" in the sense "are not permitted to", so if "must not" is the > preferred wording: yes. Okay, I'll update that for the next release. (Policy defines "may" as meaning that something is entirely optional, so it makes "may not" a bit confusing.) I would love to switch to RFC 2119 terms eventually. They're not inherently better, but there's a huge body of work in which these sorts of nuances have all already been worked out. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
