Russ Allbery wrote: > I don't know what to say to this, since this question seems exceedingly > strange to me. The way we maintain Policy is by consensus, so if a > consensus develops around a solution, the answer is obviously yes? Or, > perhaps, the answer is obviously no since the same consensus would change > Policy and the solution would therefore obviously follow Policy? I don't > know if one of those answers is what you're driving for.
Yeah, sorry for the lack of context. I was hoping an answer one way or another would help conversation move past moments like [1], where I proposed a way forward (inspired by a message from Marco[2]) and got no answer about it: | Policy does not allow this. If it did, we wouldn't be having this discussion. > In general, Policy is intended to make our distribution consistent and to > help our packages integrate. The end goal is the Debian distribution, not > following Policy for its own sake. Obviously, if we come up with a better > solution than what's currently in Policy, we should do that! Thanks. That is what I did a poor job of saying before, and I think it answers the question well. Jonathan [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-hams/2012/05/msg00003.html [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00737.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120502213419.GB32443@burratino
