On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 02:46:17PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 04 Nov 2013, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Such policy change should have been proposed before --commit was > > implemented. > > dpkg is supposed to follow policy not the other way round. > > No, the policy doesn't dictate everything top-down. Large part of it are > built on top of existing practices that it merely formalizes.
But this change was breaking existing practice. > This change was discussed on -devel. Please stop looking for problems > where there are none. > > http://lists.debian.org/20110529085303.ga17...@rivendell.home.ouaza.com But then why did not you CC debian-policy ? Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- 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/20131104140937.GA16874@yellowpig
