Hello, On Mon 11 Sep 2023 at 01:04pm +02, Santiago Vila wrote:
> I wrote: >> I believe that by choosing the wording appropriately, we can still keep this >> desired property of Policy while still not mandating any given >> implementation. > > Sorry, that was terribly worded. I meant that we can avoid the hassle of > documenting everything dh_installsystemd does and at the same time not > *formally* mandating the use of dh_installsystemd. In general, I agree with Santiago. I find Policy's current scope and working process effective, and not especially ambiguous. I think everyone should read it during the NM process, if not sooner. Russ has concretely considered these issues much more than me, and Niels has worked extensively on an implementation, and I have not. These things count, so my sense that things are broadly okay as they are only goes so far. I do think we should put weight on our actual experiences as Debian contributors, and what's useful, and, as elsewhere in software, focus on incremental improvements over rewrites. For example, I think that the knowledge of good documentation practices that's already implicit in how we all actually write Policy text counts for more than abstract discussions of best practice. -- Sean Whitton
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