Yuri D'Elia <wav...@thregr.org> writes: > On Mon, Jan 02 2017, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> No matter what we do here, we're going to make a bunch of packages >> buggy, because the archive is very divided on current best practice. >> :( > Buggy in the sense that existing packages wouldn't comply with the new > rules? Right, we'd be saying that you're supposed to do something different than what a bunch of packages are currently doing. Although it would just be a regular bug (and really no one should bother reporting it for right now), we usually try not to do that. But I don't think that's a huge problem here. > I don't see this as "buggyness", but more of a simple transition like > any other. By this metric, the current state is equally buggy. I see the > current mixture of changelog and release logs as proof that maintainers > would like to do the best thing for the users, but get tangled by the > policy. Yup, I agree. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
