Re: on the formal significance of vetoing something

2024-08-15 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 10:19:08AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I wonder if such a veto has any formal effect? > It doesn't. [..] > > IOW, anyone can veto anything, but a veto as such has no power on its > > own, right? > > Correct. The Policy Editors are responsible for judging consensus. We

Bug#1057238: debian-policy: Take dpkg-build-api into account for Rules-Requires-Root

2024-08-15 Thread Niels Thykier
Sean Whitton: Hello, On Tue 13 Aug 2024 at 09:36pm +02, Niels Thykier wrote: Can we have a trivial editorial change to the Rules-Requires-Root paragraph saying that default depends on the `dpkg-build-api` used? Bringing it up, because we are seeing a recommendation for people to add a `Rules-